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A peach wood plaque carved with one of the eight trigrams. Feng shui reads a house as a square, and a floor plan with a corner cut away, an L-shape, a recessed entry, is said to be missing the part of life that corner...

A pine bough leaning off a white stone, two birds on the branch. The leaning pine is the oldest picture in Chinese landscape painting, a tree that bends to the wind on a cliff face and keeps growing anyway, which is why the pine...

A lotus leaf in dark stoneware, curled to hold the burn. The lotus is the flower that grows clean out of mud, and in Buddhist and Chinese homes it stands for a mind kept clear of what it rises through. This burner takes the...

A weathered branch inside a bronze ring, a gold bird above, a fish below. Three things sit in the circle and each one is an old wish. The pine is the tree that stays green through winter, the Chinese shorthand for a long life....

Two discs of radiating strips, one larger, one smaller, each on a black stand. The Chinese name is 圆满, round and full, a circle closed. It is the word for a task finished properly, a marriage that lasts, a family with no one missing,...

Lotus seedpods in gold, swaying on looping dark stems. Twin lotus, 并蒂莲, is the name for two blooms on one stalk, and it has long been the picture Chinese families reach for when they mean a devoted couple. The pods carry the second half...

A small white monk kneels beneath a curling green lotus leaf. The lotus grows out of mud and opens clean above the water, which is why Buddhist tradition uses it for the mind that stays clear whatever it rose from. The Chinese name, 莲悟,...

Two birds on a pine branch, framed in gold above a ribbed cream sphere. The piece takes its name from an old saying, 良禽择木, a wise bird chooses its tree. It was first said of ministers deciding which lord to serve, and it is...

Rough green quartz, broken rather than polished, the surface like wet sugar. Green strawberry quartz is clear quartz grown through with fine green inclusions, which give it both the colour and the faint glitter where light catches the crystals inside. Green stones have long...

Citrine in the rough, broken rather than cut, pale lemon yellow. Citrine is the yellow form of quartz, the colour of low sun through a window. It has long been kept for optimism and for inviting opportunity in, and traders kept a piece in...

A ring of blue blades tipped in gold, open at the centre. The strips radiate from an empty hub like the spokes of a wheel or the rays of a low sun, deep teal at the root and brushed gold at the tips, so...

The Laughing Buddha rides the dragon turtle over a heap of coins. Budai, the laughing monk, is kept for contentment and for the luck that finds people who are easy to be around. The dragon turtle under him is the feng shui figure for...

A carved wood stand with a raised platform and a low shelf beside it. Chinese scholars' objects were rarely set straight on the table. A stone, a teapot or a small figure was given a base, so the eye met it a little above...

The smaller of the two carved stands, 25cm from end to end. The centre is raised and pierced with a round window, the two side platforms sit lower, and the whole piece is carved to read as root and rock in the scholar's desk...

Rough clear quartz, broken not cut, sold by the kilo. Clear quartz is the master stone, valued for clarity and for holding whatever intention is brought to it, and it is the stone most often used to fill the dish in front of a...

A dragon boat in green jade, sail set, rigging carved from the stone. The four characters on the sail read 一帆风顺, one sail, a following wind: the phrase said to anyone setting out, on a journey, a business, a marriage. The dragon at the...

A whole dried gourd on its own vine, tied at the waist in red. The hulu (葫芦) is the oldest container in Chinese life, a bottle before there were bottles, and in feng shui it keeps that job: a narrow mouth and a wide...

A tree of citrine chips, wired branch by branch, rooted in a gold pot. The money tree is the feng shui picture of wealth that grows rather than arrives: many small stones, each one a coin, held up by branches that keep reaching. Citrine...

The Chi Lin is the gentlest of the celestial guardians. Often called the Chinese unicorn or dragon horse, it carries the body of a horse, the scales of a dragon, and a nature known for goodwill rather than force. In feng shui it is...

A pavilion among pines, carved into a tablet of jade.This is shanshui, the mountain-and-water landscape Chinese painters have returned to for a thousand years: somewhere high, quiet and far from the city, kept as a picture of where you would go if you could....