Framed Chinese Pith Painting Watercolour of A Dignitary - 19thC Cotton Porcelain Ginger Jar with a

Porcelain Ginger Jar with a Wucai (5 colour) glaze This ginger jar is hand made on the potters wheel in the traditional way

Brass Shiva - Hand Made Dokra Work From Orissa

Military chests such as this were commissioned for officers of the British Indian Army to carry their kit and personal possessions while on tour

The shape of these arches is a classic Mughal 'mihrab' shape which has its roots in Arabic design

Framed Chinese Pith Painting Watercolour of A Dignitary - 19thC Cotton Porcelain Ginger Jar with aThis excellent antique Chinese pith painting is painted on pith paper and dates from the 19th century. Pith paintings were painted in China for the European export market which was enjoying a fascination with all things Chinese and Chinoiserie. Here, a dignitary can be seen wearing traditional Chinese dress adorned with dragons and holding a ruyi (ceremonial scepter). Pith paper is the spongy cellular tissue in the stem of a small tree called