Blue & White Porcelain Fish Design Jardinière

This Chinese porcelain jardinière is decorated with a delicate a provincial fish design and is ideally suited to be used as a flower vase, perhaps an orchid, or a flowing crawler such as a devil's ivy.

The fish is a longstanding symbol of wealth in China as the Chinese symbol for fish 'yu' can also be translated to 'abundance'. In ancient China, a fish in water symbolised marital harmony.

All our reproduction Chinese porcelain is made in Jingdezhen, the capital of Chinese porcelain production since 1004 AD. The famous imperial kilns have been sited there since the Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644 (1368 - 1644 AD). Most potters have learned their craft from the elders of their family. These skills have been handed down through the generations. Porcelain is steeped in centuries of Chinese culture and history.