Well, this is jarring. A ginger jar initially dismissed as “just another piece of blue-and-white pottery” turned out to be a 300-year-old Chinese treasure.. The 9-inch ceramic pot, which is ...

These kits are widely available at retailers like Amazon and Home Depot for under $20 each. The ginger jars themselves vary ...

Rotund Chinese ginger jars, with their distinctive, domed lids, made of glazed porcelain and hand painted, got their name from the stashes of ginger, which they carried for a Western market.