Blue & White Porcelain Stool - Fish Design Serveware Dowry was typically gold jewelry

Dowry was typically gold jewelry and silk saris but sometimes brass cooking pots and other family treasures were exchanged

Kadais were used as cauldrons for cooking on a large scale at Indian festivals and weddings

It would have originally opened from the top by a hatch

65 x 10 x 157 (wxdxh cms)

being used to display a deity

Blue & White Porcelain Stool - Fish Design Serveware Dowry was typically gold jewelryThese reproduction Chinese porcelain stools are hand crafted and hand painted in small workshops in Jingdezhen which is still the centre for the best quality porcelain. They're perfect for use as an extra stool around a table or as a side table. Each stool is decorated with a traditional fish design inspired by an important 14th century, Yuan style jar found in The Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka, Japan. The fish is a longstanding symbol of