Beautiful Blue and White Lidded Porcelain Canister with Handpainted Ginko Leaf Design porcelain cup The hand-painted design--really a drawing

The hand-painted design--really a drawing on clay--reminds me of a  map with shape-shifting land masses

This seems to be a pretty rare one

It would once have had a little flip down cigarette rest inside

and then rounded on the bottom to sit nicely on whatever surface one might choose to display it

I believe the head is birch and the body teak

Beautiful Blue and White Lidded Porcelain Canister with Handpainted Ginko Leaf Design porcelain cup The hand-painted design--really a drawingThis 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