Cut Glass Jar with Deer Lid

A clear glass jar, the lid crowned with a small gold stag.

The glass is pressed in a diamond pattern that throws light around whatever sits inside. The deer is an old feng shui favourite: its name, lu, sounds like the word for an official's salary, so a stag has long been kept as a quiet wish for steady income and a long life. Here it doubles as the handle. Two sizes, the taller for loose tea or a stack of bracelets, the smaller for sweets or rings, on a coffee table, a dresser, or the shelf where the tea things live.