Blue & White Porcelain Jardinière - Fish Design Bedside Cabinets This antique Chinese wine table

This antique Chinese wine table dates to the 19th century and is from the provincial area of Shanxi province

Origin: Anglo-Indian (British Colonial India)

fertility and longevity

Each door is carved from a single piece of wood from the hollock tree (terminalia myriocarpa) also known as the East Indian almond tree

along with its naturally weathered patina

Blue & White Porcelain Jardinière - Fish Design Bedside Cabinets This antique Chinese wine tableThis reproduction Chinese porcelain jardinire is decorated with a delicate fish design and is ideally suited for a plant, 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. This design is inspired by an important 14th century, Yuan style fish and algae