Beautiful Blue and White Lidded Porcelain Canister with Handpainted Ginko Leaf Design Christopher Alexander 8” tall with a diameter

8” tall with a diameter of 5” at widest and in excellent condition

Vintage 1950s

but it is in overall excellent condition and structurally very sound

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Beautiful Blue and White Lidded Porcelain Canister with Handpainted Ginko Leaf Design Christopher Alexander 8” tall with a diameterThis stunning positively luminous! hand thrown porcelain lidded vessel, with lush cobalt blue hand painted ginkgo leaf design over white glaze, is a truly exquisite thing, but I have not been able to figure out anything at all about it. It is signed exuberantly! on the bottom in a calligraphic manner that I have not been able to decipher, but which seems to indicate a pleased and confident maker! It feels simultaneously very old and quite modern, and