An elegantly shaped antique Chinese carrying style wooden tea cask carved with a crane perching with one foot on a banana tree like branch while looking back, all in original dark brown lacquer.
A tea cask is made with a pouring spout and filled with a teapot inside with cotton stuffed around the teapot to keep the tea warm during the cold winter while carrying the tea cask from one room to another in the living compound often huge in size to house several generations and relatives.