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ginger jar

noun

  1. a Chinese ceramic jar having a wide mouth, a globular body, and a dome-shaped cover.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ginger jar1

First recorded in 1880–85
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When it recurs in the 1893-1894 “Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants,” its rough bottom half is hidden by a decorously placed melon, which feels like a private joke of some sort, an inner-circle gibe that might reduce a family to giggles, while remaining indecipherable to everyone else.

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Gibson, whose line of boldly patterned ginger jar lamps and tole trays tends toward the traditional, still likes a little boho style in her country picnics.

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My father unwrapped the package and took out a very large ginger jar.

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Then how could a yellow ginger jar turn everything inside me upside down?

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Some ideas: a piece of coral, a glass orb, or a small ginger jar.

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