Legend of Asia carves rather than paints this square tea jar, cutting robed figures in low relief across all four flat faces. Once glazed, the white porcelain gathers in every incised line, so the scenes read as soft shadow instead of color and reveal more detail the closer you look. With a fitted square lid, the square jar introduces flat planes to a shelf otherwise full of rounded silhouettes, and its corners are never mathematically true. The carved jar is high fired in a southern Chinese pottery town until dense and waterproof, so it holds up on a covered porch as well as indoors. Use the lidded jar for storage, group it with a painted ginger jar, or let this porcelain jar stand alone in shelf decor, chinoiserie decor and asian decor rooms.
