Black Glazed Chinese Ginger Jar Chest of Drawers Jharokha were built into the

Jharokha were built into the fabric of buildings and gave privacy while allowing a cooling breeze to enter the building

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This pretty Daoist shrine is a 1950's copy of a Shanxi ancestor house

These glass lamps are known in India as Handis or Hundis named after a cooking pot

and often money which she would take to her new home once she had married a suitable husband

Black Glazed Chinese Ginger Jar Chest of Drawers Jharokha were built into theThis beautiful piece is a modern black glazed Ginger Jar. Ginger Jars are steeped in centuries of Chinese culture and history. Even though pottery developed in China 15,000 years ago, most experts believe that true porcelain which also originated in China didn't emerge in the region until the Han Dynasty (202 BC to 220 AD. Ginger jars are steeped in centuries of Chinese culture and history originating in the Qin dynasty (221 207 BC) when ginger and