Chinese Export Ceramics
CHINESE EXPORT STYLE
Expanded trade between Europe and East Asia, starting in the 16th century, led to a booming market for exported goods, particularly furniture. This was bolstered by the establishment of the Dutch and English East India Companies at the beginning of the 17th century. From folding screens and chairs to lacquer tables and silver, Chinese Export furniture was in demand and regularly copied and imitated, leading to styles like chinoiserie and Chinese Chippendale.
The expansion of exporting that had strengthened the arts during the Ming dynasty continued into the Qing dynasty era — Chinese designers made many furniture pieces specifically for export, resulting in distinctive designs that mixed traditional techniques with forms appealing to foreign buyers. For instance, cabinetmakers in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) were prolific in crafting hardwood furniture for export in European styles that involved the expert joinery techniques of Chinese furniture. Designs for Chinese Export porcelain, cabinets, decorative objects and other furniture were often more ornately adorned than they would be for a local audience, such as with mother-of-pearl overlays or surfaces featuring lavish pictorial scenes or gold on black motifs. Some were even commissioned by wealthy European families to be adorned with their coat of arms.
Because lacquer furniture was especially prized, and the resin used to create it was difficult to import as it would harden during the long voyage, artisans in China and Japan exported numerous lacquer pieces. Long before lacquer made its way to Japan, the Chinese treated the material differently. They used it to create smooth, glossy surfaces, but also for carving, an art that began in the 12th century and is exclusively Chinese. These pieces are called cinnabar lacquer after the powdered mercury sulfide (cinnabar) employed to produce their characteristic red hue. A popular form for export was a compact cabinet with drawers, usually displayed on a small table. Undecorated furniture built in Europe was also shipped to China to be lacquered. The international exchange of design would influence furniture into the 19th century and later, informing styles such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
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Style: Chinese Export
Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Dish, Arms of Pole, circa 1745
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export armorial porcelain dish,
Arms of Pole,
circa 1745
The Chinese export armorial porcelain dish is painted with pane...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Blue and White Baluster Jar with Shizi
Located in Chicago, IL
Images of shizi, a lion-dog symbol of power and strength of character, cavort among the stylized clouds of heaven on this hand-painted covered jar. Original...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Yongzheng Chinese Export Style Famille Rose Large Charger, 20th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A large Yongzheng style Chinese porcelain charger decorated in beautiful famille rose enamels of pinks, blues, greens and yellows, 20th century, China.
Painted in the Chinese expor...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Cantonese / Rose Medallion Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of mid-19th century Chinese Canton / Rose medallion vases on stands. Each with a white ground, green foliate decoration with exotic bids, flowers and butterflies. Inset panted panels, handles either side of two men carrying...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Shizi Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
Images of shizi, a lion-dog symbol of power and strength of character, cavort among the stylized clouds of heaven on this hand-painted covered jar. Original...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Blue and White Baluster Jar with Fish and Flora
Located in Chicago, IL
This blue-and-white covered jar is hand-painted with flora and fauna of the sea, offering blessings of wealth, abundance, and the contented harmony of a fish in water. Chinese blue-a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Associated Pair of 19th Century Chinese Porcelain Mirror Black Lamps
Located in San Francisco, CA
Associated pair of 19th century Chinese porcelain mirror black lamps, circa 1880
Baluster Classic form. Both on old hardwood bases.
Two similar age...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Hardwood, Porcelain
Pair of 18th Century Chinese Export Porcelain Mancerinas or Trembleuses
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of Chinese export porcelain mancerinas or trembleuses likely made for the Spanish/Spanish Colonial market. Based on a silver form, the standing central ring was designed to su...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Shiwan Figural Pottery Lamp
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This hand sculptured, circa 1900 Chinese Shiwan pottery lamp depicts two Chinese scholars within a country landscape. Sometime in the mid-20th century t...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Unusual Chinese Longshan Black Pottery Vase
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Unusual Chinese Longshan
Black pottery vase
Late 20th century.
Finely handcrafted in relief
in archaic style with figures
and inscriptions...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Antique Japanese Porcelain Vase Custom Mounted as a Lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique Japanese vase newly custom mounted as a lamp. Painted in a Chinese style with multicolored floral and bird motifs against a vibrant pink background now custom mounted as lamp...
Category
1910s Japanese Vintage Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain, Silk, Lucite
Oval Porcelain Well and Tree Platter, Chinese Export, Nanking Pattern, c. 1790
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese export Nanking pattern well and tree platter. This ovoid shaped porcelain is decorated with an underglaze blue. The double border is in...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Chinese Export Rose Medallion Punch Bowl
Located in Dallas, TX
Large late 19th century Chinese export rose medallion punch bowl.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Gooseneck Vase with Fish and Flora
Located in Chicago, IL
Elaborately finned fish make their way in a vibrant underwater world on this tall blue-and-white gooseneck vase. Patterned with real and abstract forms, this ceramic vase is a contem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Enamel Cloisonné Charger with Multicolored Floral Motif
Located in New York, NY
Chinese metal cloisonné charger with multicolored floral motif on the front face and a blue enamel back with stylized floral motif. The piece was mad...
Category
1930s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Metal
19th century Rose Medallion Chinese Export Covered Chamber Bowl
Located in Savannah, GA
Rare early Canton Chinese Export porcelain Rose Medallion bowl with lid. Features include outstanding intricately painted birds, flower...
Category
Early 1800s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Polychrome Charger Plate
Located in Miami, FL
20th century polychrome charger plate.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Provincial Blue and White Tea Leaf Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
Tea has an auspicious beginning—it was purportedly enjoyed by the Buddha himself, and cakes of tea as large as wagon wheels were given to Chinese emperors as tribute. Tea drinking wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Gilt Bronze Mounted Chinese Canton Famille Rose Porcelain Lamps
Located in London, GB
These elegant lamps are crafted from Chinese Canton famille rose porcelain and mounted with French gilt bronze (ormolu). The lamps featur...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Chinese Blue and White Koi Bottleneck Vase
Located in Chicago, IL
Revered for centuries for its elegant designs and rich cobalt blue and pure white colors, traditional Chinese blue-and-white porcelain lives on in this hand-painted bottleneck vase. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Monumental Fish and Flora Blue and White Gooseneck Vase
Located in Chicago, IL
Revered for centuries for its elegant designs and rich cobalt blue and pure white colors, traditional Chinese blue-and-white porcelain lives on in this hand-painted bottleneck vase. Delicately rendered with fish and flora beneath fanciful waves, the vase's whimsical motif draws from these traditional Chinese symbols...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Export Punchbowl with Staple Repairs, 18th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A remarkable large Chinese export blue and white punchbowl painted with a floral and brocade design, and featuring a stunning staple repair, 18th century...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Iron
Large Chinese Trailing Vine Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
Representing royalty and virtue, peonies in full bloom grace the rounded sides of this large porcelain jar. The jar has a tapered body and a cylind...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of circa 1800 Chinese Export Tobacco Leaf Plates
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of 7.875" diameter round porcelain plates with over all design in bright, bold colors known as the "tobacco leaf" pattern. Central leaf shape reserve containing script monogram ...
Category
Early 1800s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Export Porcelain Gugglet in Mandarin Pattern
Located in Dallas, TX
Chinese export porcelain gugglet hand decorated in polychrome Mandarin pattern having gilt accent over iron red background. Large reserves, front and ...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Canton Porcelain Boxes, 1900 Period
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of rectangular Canton porcelain boxes. Polychromic and gold enameled decoration in the green and pink shades and composed of flowers and foliages with bouquets and scenes.
The ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
Chinese Famille Rose porcelain vase with a colorful decorative pattern. The piece dates from the mid-20th century and is in great ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of 18th Century Chinese Export Mandarin Vases
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of Chinese export porcelain vases decorated with overglaze enamel in the "mandarin" pattern. These vases are of rectangular shape and have figural gilt handles. Qianlong period,...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Fine Lively Modeled Porcelain Dogs
Located in Greenwich, CT
A pair of lively modeled porcelain dogs, Fine details and colors.
Category
Late 20th Century Asian Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Peony Fantail Vases, c. 1920s
Located in Chicago, IL
Resplendent with lush florals and brilliant color, this pair of porcelain vases combines stencil work with hand-painted foliage in a decorative style popular during the first two decades of the 20th century. The stenciled petals and blooms of the peonies, symbols of love and affection, create a graphic pattern of soft, modulated color, while the painted stems and small flowers punctuate the design with sharp detail. Innovative in decoration, the vases are firmly rooted in China’s time-honored ceramic tradition with their Classic fantail contours and butterfly handles.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Lamp
Located in Stockton, NJ
A blue and white motif Chinese export vase, now as lamp. Interesting raised dragon detail. Distress painted base. Two sockets. Shade for display purposes only. Vase measures 19"H.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Hand-Painted Chinese Export Flower Vases
Located in Westwood, NJ
A fine pair of Chinese blue and white wide mouth hand-painted flower decorated flared top vases.
Dimensions: 10" W x 10" D x 21.5" H.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Chinese Export Rose Mandarin Vases Now Custom Mounted as Lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair Antique Chinese Export Rose Mandarin Vases now mounted as lamps on custom gilt wood bases and with custom hand smocked cream colored silk shades trimmed in pink ribbon and antiq...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Silk, Porcelain, Wood
19th Century Pair of Imari Porcelaine Lamp Mounted Gilt Bronze
Located in Marseille, FR
19th century pair of porcelain lamp from Imari. Frame gilt bronze decorations of metal polychrome flowers.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Oval Famille Rose Dish
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Chinese Export porcelain dish in the famille rose palette is painted on the border with meandering vines and flowers which surrounds a central panel decorated with vases and pots of flowers...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Armorial Cachepots in the Chinese Export Style
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Striking pair of large-scale armorial cachepots in the Chinese export style on bronze bases.
Category
Mid-19th Century Asian Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Pair of Chinese Porcelain Bottle Shaped Vases, Daoguang period (1821-1850)
Located in New York, NY
A fine pair of Chinese porcelain bottle-shaped vases, painted in the Islamic style, Daoguang period (1821-1850). Each vase finely handpainted in Henn...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Three 18th Century Chinese Export Plates
Located in Buchanan, MI
Set of three Chinese export plates with floral decoration. Three 18th century Chinese exprort plates.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century, Chinese Export Coral and Puce Porcelain Tea Service
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain service spectacularly decorated with a smart coral scale ground with panels of puce flowers.
The service com...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Canton Famille Rose Plate, ca. 1840
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Canton Famille rose 9.6 inch plate, ca. 1840, enameled with seven figures, the four males forming a band, one playing the erhu, one playing symbols, one playing the dizi (bamboo flute...
Category
1780s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Blue & White Prunus Blossoms Covered Ginger Jar Vase Early 20c
Located in Richmond, CA
Antique early 20c Chinese export blue and white covered ginger jar, hand painted in reserve with branches of plum blossoms all over, on cobalt blue ground, with a double circle mark ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Green and White Porcelain Lidded Jars
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Lofty pair of Chinese porcelain ginger jars hand crafted in classic form and hand decorated in delightful green and white floral designs.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Serving or Shrimp Dish Rose Medallion, Qing Ca 1810
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative, good quality Chinese export, porcelain, Large Shrimp or Serving Dish beautifully hand decorated in a Rose Medallion Pattern, which we date to the early 19t...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Chinese Porcelain Ginger Jar with its Lid
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
An interesting beginning of the 20th century antique Chinese porcelain ginger jar, with fitted lid, which appears to be a replacem...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large 18th Century Chinese Porcelain Punch Bowl, Hunt Bowl Made Circa 1770
Located in Katonah, NY
The Chinese hunt bowl at its finest!
Made in the Qianlong period, circa 1770, this exquisite hand-painted Chinese export bowl shows Western figures r...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Porcelain Ginger Jar With Lid Cobalt Blue Decorations
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest that you read the entire description, as with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Antique and rare Chinese ginger jar with lid...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Old or Antique Chinese Baluster Form Prunus or Hawthorne Pattern Vases
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine complementary pair of Chinese porcelain vases.
In the baluster form.
Painted with blue underglaze decoration in the Hawthorne pattern with prunus sprigs and a brushstrok...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Shipwreck Porcelain Dish
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A Chinese export porcelain shipwreck soup dish from the Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes, made in the early to mid-18th century.
This Chinese porcelain soup dish was created specifically for export to the European market. It was used for soup or broth courses, which had become a dinner staple in Northern Europe following the influence of French table customs. This piece features an underglaze blue floral decoration, here comprising chrysanthemums, peonies, and a pomegranate. The floral sprigs appear to grow from a rock formation, partly obscured by the marine incrustations. On the border of the dish, three arrangements of lotuses balance the composition. The swiftness of the painter’s hand is evident in the strokes forming leaves and petals, as well as in the bleeding of some of the lighter cobalt washes coloring the flowers.
Dimensions: 9 in. Dm x 1 1/4 in. H (22.9 cm Dm x 3.2 cm H)
Condition: Salvaged condition. A few hairlines extending from the rim to the center, the longest about 6cm. We do not recommend cleaning or restoration, as the current condition speaks to an important stage in this object’s life.
Provenance:
Collection Mrs Marianne L. Dreesmann-van der Spek, Laren, inv. no J002;
Collection Mrs Hetti T.G. von der Gablentz-Blanche Koelensmid, Amsterdam;
Amsterdam, Christie's, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes, before 1987.
Christie’s Amsterdam, Fine and Important Late Ming and Transitional Porcelain...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Porcelain Baluster Vases with Scholars
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese porcelain baluster vases, the body of each depicting scenes with robed scholars conversing amidst rockwork under pine trees. Reverse...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Famille Rose Ginger Jar with Boys at Play, C. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
During the 18th century, Europeans provided an eager market for Chinese export porcelain, especially the colorful and fanciful ware known as “famille rose.” Named for a palette of opaque overglaze enamels that favored roses and pinks, famille rose porcelain ware was crafted with the same technical virtuosity as imperial porcelain but designed for Western tastes.
This round ginger jar is decorated with a lively scene of boys at play...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
Chinese Famille Rose Scholarly Gathering Baluster Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
During the 18th century, Europeans provided an eager market for Chinese export porcelain, especially the colorful and fanciful ware known as “famille rose.” Named for a palette of op...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Figural Iron Red and Gilt Duck Tureen & Stand
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese Export Porcelain figural iron red and gilt duck tureen & stand
Later 20th century
Of large size, realistically modeled and ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain, Hardwood
Antique Blue & White Canton Chinese Export Porcelain Pitcher or Jug
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Canton Chinese Export porcelain pitcher.
Decorated with blue underglaze throughout depicting a Chinese village near the wate...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Gilt Bronze Mounted Chinese Export Iron Red Mandarin Vases
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair Gilt bronze mounted Chinese export iron red Mandarin vases
The vases,China, 1900s The gilt bronze mounts, France
This pair of Chinese export iron red Mandarin vases, mounted wi...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Famille Rose Scholarly Gathering Baluster Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
During the 18th century, Europeans provided an eager market for Chinese export porcelain, especially the colorful and fanciful ware known as “famille rose.” Named for a palette of op...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Famille Verte Porcelain Cabbage Leaf & Butterfly Coffee or Tea Cup and Saucer
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful and rare porcelain Famille Verte cabbage leaf and butterfly pattern coffee or tea cup and saucer set, circa e...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
1920's Chinese Export Hand Painted Miniature Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
1920's Chinese export miniature ceramic vase, with hand painted floral decoration., and gilt rim. Stamped Made In China on bottom.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Export Famille Verte Octagonal Plate
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
18th century Chinese export Famille Verte octagonal plate, exquisitely painted with a court scene with an iron red and grisaille border.
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export ceramics for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export ceramics for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage ceramics created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include asian art and furniture, decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, porcelain and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Chinese Export ceramics made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and China pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original ceramics, popular names associated with this style include Europa Antiques, Imari Porcelain, Meissen Porcelain, and Samson & Cie. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for ceramics differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $100 and tops out at $76,572 while the average work can sell for $1,495.
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