{"title":"Vessels \u0026 Objects","description":"\u003cp\u003eFunctional objects and collectibles — cricket vessels, gourds, and natural curiosities. Things made to be held, used, and kept.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"marrakech-craft-cricket-vessel-round-belly-tortoiseshell-rosewood","title":"Marrakech Craft — Cricket Vessel, Round-Belly, Tortoiseshell \u0026 Rosewood","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Chinese have been keeping crickets for over two thousand years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCricket culture\u003c\/strong\u003e in China is one of the oldest forms of urban pet-keeping on record. During the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD), palace women kept crickets in golden cages to enjoy their song. By the Song Dynasty, cricket fighting had become a national pastime with formal rulebooks, professional breeders, and imperial patronage. The vessels used to house crickets — \u003cem\u003eqiquguan\u003c\/em\u003e — became objects of craft in their own right: made from gourds, ceramic, and wood, designed to regulate temperature and humidity for the insect inside. The finest examples were collected by emperors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gourd-and-wood craft tradition of Morocco — where artisans in Marrakech's medina have worked with organic materials for centuries — shares the same instinct: taking a functional object and making it worthy of attention. The tortoiseshell carving on this lid depicts ocean themes — waves, marine creatures — rendered in a style that has no Chinese equivalent. The rosewood base is the same material used in Chinese imperial furniture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis vessel has a round-belly form — the traditional shape associated with the finest cricket acoustics, designed so the insect's song resonates within the chamber. The lid is carved tortoiseshell with ocean motifs. The body is rosewood. It can hold a cricket. It can hold other things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e China · Marrakech craft tradition, Morocco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved tortoiseshell lid, rosewood body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eType:\u003c\/strong\u003e Decorative vessel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne piece only. 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The tradition of carving them into functional objects — so that the blessing is built into the thing itself, not just hung on the wall — goes back to the Song Dynasty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWenge — \u003cem\u003ejichi mu\u003c\/em\u003e in Chinese, literally \"chicken-wing wood\" — is named for the feather-like grain pattern that appears when the wood is cut across the growth rings. It is one of the hardest and densest of the Chinese decorative woods, with a natural lustre that deepens with age. The same wood appears in Ming Dynasty furniture now held in museum collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis standing-form vessel has a taller, narrower profile than the round-belly variety — designed for display as much as function. The wenge lid is carved with Fu, Lu, and Shou in low relief. The body is the same wenge, uncarved, letting the grain speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e China · Marrakech craft tradition, Morocco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved wenge lid and body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eType:\u003c\/strong\u003e Decorative vessel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne piece only. 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The gourd didn't need human help to spread its logic across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Morocco, gourd craftsmen in the Marrakech medina have worked with dried gourds for centuries — carving, burning, and lacquering them into objects that carry the warmth of the material and the mark of the hand. In China, the tradition of \u003cem\u003epao qi\u003c\/em\u003e — gourd craft — runs from imperial collections to street markets, the same instinct expressed across every social register.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis gourd has been allowed to age naturally — no carving, no lacquer, no intervention. The surface has developed a patina that moves from pale yellow to a warm orange-red, the colour produced by years of oxidation and handling. The form is the original form. Nothing has been added.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e China · Marrakech craft tradition, Morocco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Natural aged gourd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eType:\u003c\/strong\u003e Decorative object\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne piece only. What you see is what ships.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YOJINMI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280568770629,"sku":"YJM-GD-CN-001","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/1011\/5397\/files\/20260704054819_55_46_7d3e8cb7-f8e6-4214-83a8-5f21ce9acdbf.jpg?v=1783119070"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/1011\/5397\/collections\/vessels-objects.png?v=1783125175","url":"https:\/\/yojinmi.com\/zh\/collections\/vessels-objects.oembed","provider":"YOJINMI","version":"1.0","type":"link"}