You may have seen an abundance of décor and design spreads featuring beautiful blue and white jars used ... to chic art objects meant purely for decoration. Commonly called ginger jars, these ...

The Chinese ginger jar (far right) will be sold as part of Hanson Holloway’s Banbury Fine Art and Antiques auction on Feb. 3. Hanson Hollowayâs / SWNS The Chinese ginger jar will be sold as ...

Art has no boundaries ... or where they come from. Rotund Chinese ginger jars, with their distinctive, domed lids, made of glazed porcelain and hand painted, got their name from the stashes ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Paul Cézanne was a French artist. He was born in 1839 in Provence, France and died in 1906. He is well-known for ...