Chinese Export Jars
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.
Find a collection of antique Chinese Export tables, beds, cupboards, table lamps and more furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Chinese Export
Antique Chinese Enameled Copper Ginger Jar
Located in Norwood, NJ
Finely enameled on copper Chinese covered ginger jar vase with yellow ground decoration, scenes of exotic birds and foliage. Colorful jar with yellow, greens. blues and whites. Botto...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Chinese Apple Green Glazed Ceramic Jar
Located in New York, NY
Chinese Apple Green Glazed Ceramic Jar, yellow glazed interior, together with a carved hongmu stand. vase: 6.5" H x 7.25" Diameter.
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Blue and White Double Happiness Ginger Jars
Located in Chicago, IL
The symbol for double happiness adorns this pair of ginger jars with best wishes for love, companionship and marital bliss. Glazed in the classic blue and white manner, each porcelai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Blue and White Scroll Pots
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - the scroll pot was a fixture of every traditional scholar’s studio. Drawing on China...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Kangxi Mark Porcelain Ginger Jars, Pair
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Lidded Ginger Jars, with mystical creature motif, cobalt blue overglaze Kangxi six character mark in double circle to underside, on carved wo...
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Blue and White Double Happiness Ginger Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
The symbol for double happiness adorns this slender ginger jar with best wishes for love, companionship and marital bliss. Glazed in the classic blue and white manner, the porcelain ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Peony Brush Pot
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush pot, or bitong, was an essential fixture of the scholars' desk. This porcela...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Brush Pot with Birds and Peonies
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush pot, or bitong, was an essential fixture of the scholars' desk. This porcela...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Double Happiness Ginger Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
The symbol for double happiness adorns this slender ginger jar with best wishes for love, companionship and marital bliss. Glazed in the classic blue and white manner, the porcelain ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Very Good Quality Large Chinese Lidded Jars / PAIR
Located in Dallas, TX
a large pair of Chinese vases, very good quality, each with female figures as finials, seated next to garden seats, and foo lion mask hand...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Peony Brush Pot
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush pot, or bitong, was an essential fixture of the scholars' desk. This porcela...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
A Pair of Late 20th Century Blue and White Ceramic Chinese Ginger Jars
Located in Catania, Sicilia
A pair of blue and white ceramic ginger jars hand-crafted and painted in China in the second part of 20th century, They are in original condition with normal signs of age. Blue and w...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Blue and White Brush Pot with Birds and Peonies
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush pot, or bitong, was an essential fixture of the scholars' desk. This porcela...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Double Happiness Ginger Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
The symbol for double happiness adorns this slender ginger jar with best wishes for love, companionship and marital bliss. Glazed in the classic blue and white manner, the porcelain ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Porcelain Ginger Jar, Qing Dynasty Yongzheng Period
Located in seoul, KR
A Chinese porcelain ginger jar, Yongzheng period, painted in underglaze blue with lotus blooms and shou(水, meaning 'Water') characters beneath a ruyi border, underglaze blue double r...
Category
1720s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Mid-20th Century White and Blue Ceramic Chinese Ginger Jars
Located in Catania, Sicilia
Crafted in China during the mid-20th century, these ginger jars exemplify the classic blue and white ceramic style that has been cherished for centuries. The jars are made of high-qu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Late 20th Century Traditional Blue and White Ceramic Chinese Ginger Jar
Located in Catania, Sicilia
A blue and white ceramic ginger jar hand-crafted and painted in China in the second part of 20th century, it's in original condition with normal signs of age. Blue and white ceramics...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Blue & White Dragon Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This large porcelain jar is beautifully glazed in the classic blue-and-white manner, with hand-painted cobalt-blue decoration against a crisp whit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Perpetual Harmony Baluster Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This contemporary lidded baluster jar continues the centuries-old tradition of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain ware. Painted with cobalt pigments for a brilliant blue finish, the ja...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Large Chinese Phoenix and Peony Blue and White Temple Jars Ginger Jars
Located in Pearland, TX
A lovely antique pair of Chinese Kangxi style handmade lidded temple jars or ginger jars. These stunning jars are a nice large size with hand painted phoenix birds and peony flowers ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Export Blue and White Lidded Jar Porcelain Hand Painted, Qing 18th C
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a heavy Chinese Export porcelain jar complete with lid, hand painted with a blue and white lakeside scene and dating to the late 18th century, Qing dynasty.
This is a well p...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue & White Dragon Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This large porcelain jar is beautifully glazed in the classic blue-and-white manner, with hand-painted cobalt-blue decoration against a crisp whit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Hand Painted Famille Rose Porcelain Ginger Jar - China - Mid 20th C.
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage porcelain ginger jar with lid - famille rose decoration with hand painted scenic panels to the front and back - turquoise bands to the top and bottom of the jar - unsigned - ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
One of Two Chinese Porcelain Glazed Figural Ginger Jars with Lids, 19th Century
Located in Antwerp, BE
Two Chinese blue and white porcelain glazed decorative figural and floral ginger jars with the original removable lids, 19th century.
Measure: Diameter 28 cm.
Height 28 cm.
Two of t...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Brush Pot with Koi & Lotus
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush pot, or bitong, was an essential fixture of the scholars' desk. This porcela...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Brush Pot with Shan Shui Landscape
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush pot, or bitong, was an essential fixture of the scholars' desk. This porcela...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Glazed Chinese Kitchen Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A glossy black glaze clings to the form of this slender kitchen jar's banded surface. The glazed vessel dates to the early 20th-century and was used for storing food and condiments i...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Chrysanthemum Ginger Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This large, tapered ginger jar continues a centuries-old tradition of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain ware. Painted with expressive brushwork, the jar is festooned with trailing vines and flower blossoms, densely patterned around large chrysanthemum medallions. Common motifs in Chinese art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Lobed Chinese Pantry Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Charged with the humble task of storing dry goods, this small earthenware jar was hand-shaped in the early 20th century with balanced proportions and a beautifully irregular unglazed...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Terracotta
Chinese Blue and White Double Happiness Spice Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
The symbol for double happiness adorns this round tea leaf jar with best wishes for love, companionship and marital bliss. Glazed in the classic blue and white manner, the porcelain jar has a rounded form with a slight taper and is topped by a flat lid, a traditional shape for jars used to hold Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Two Chinese Blue & White Porcelain Globular 'PRUNUS' Jars
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
TWO CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN
GLOBULAR 'PRUNUS' JARS
Late Qing Dynasty
Each painted with prunus branches against a mottled blue 'ice' ground
both with hardwood covers, doubl...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Blue and White Eternity Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This porcelain tea leaf jar is beautifully glazed in the blue-and-white manner, with hand-painted cobalt-blue decoration against a crisp white field. The porcelain jar has a rounded form and flat lid, a traditional shape for jars used to hold Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Double Happiness Spice Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
The symbol for double happiness adorns this round tea leaf jar with best wishes for love, companionship and marital bliss. Glazed in the classic blue and white manner, the porcelain jar has a rounded form and flat lid, a traditional shape for jars used to hold Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Monumental Cracked Chinese Oil Jar with Repairs
Located in Dallas, TX
The Brendan Bass Estate Collection is an homage to the beauty of vintage and antique
pieces, each artfully concealing endless stories collected through the generations in which they...
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Pottery
20th Century Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Ginger Jar
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Chinese Antique Blue and White porcelain Ginger Jar was hand made and hand paint from famous Chinese Blue and White Porcelain. It is a painting by Youqiu from the Mi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Small Chinese Blue and White Double Happiness Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
The symbol for double happiness adorns this small tea leaf jar with best wishes for love, companionship and marital bliss. Glazed in the classic blue and white manner, the small porcelain jar has a rounded form and flat lid, a traditional shape for jars used to hold Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Lobed Chinese Pantry Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Charged with the humble task of storing dry goods, this small earthenware jar was hand-shaped in the early 20th century with balanced proportions and a beautifully irregular unglazed...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Terracotta
Glazed Chinese Kitchen Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A thick, glossy brown glaze coats the tapered form of this early 20th-century terra cotta kitchen jar, lingering on imperfections and glistening with an iridescent sheen. As evidence...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Petite Chinese Blue and White Double Happiness Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
The symbol for double happiness adorns this petite tea leaf jar with best wishes for love, companionship and marital bliss. Glazed in the classic blue and white manner, the small porcelain jar has a rounded form and flat lid, a traditional shape for jars used to hold Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Monumental Cracked Chinese Oil Jar with Repairs
Located in Dallas, TX
The Brendan Bass Estate Collection is an homage to the beauty of vintage and antique
pieces, each artfully concealing endless stories collected through the generations in which they...
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Pottery
Glazed Chinese Kitchen Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Originally used to store foods or pickle vegetables in a provincial Chinese kitchen, this late 19th-century ceramic jar is coated inside and out with a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Ginger Jar
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Chinese Antique Blue and White porcelain Ginger Jar was hand made and hand paint from famous Chinese Blue and White P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Blue and White Jar Porcelain Hand Painted, Qing 18th Century
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a heavy Chinese Export porcelain jar hand painted with a blue and white lakeside scene and dating to the late 18th century, Qing dynasty.
This is a well potted piece with a ...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Mid 20th Century Chinese Lidded Ginger Jars Vases
Located in Pearland, TX
A lovely pair of vintage Chinese Kangxi style handmade ceramic lidded ginger jars hand painted in vibrant cobalt blue and white. These fabulous jars are decorated with flower pots in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Enameled Ginger Jar with Children at Play, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Contrasted by a crisp white field, this oval jar is decorated in the famille rose style with a lively scene of young children playing in a courtyard garden. Under an overarching bamb...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Enamel
Early 20th Century Chinese Hand Painted FooDog Ginger Jar
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Antique Chinese Famille-Rose porcelain Ginger Jar was 100% hand made and hand paint from famous Chinese Famille-Rose Porcelain. It has beautiful hand painted foo dog...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Large Famille Rose Chinese Covered Porcelain Jar With Garden Decoration
Located in Free Union, VA
A large and very decorative Famille Rose porcelain jar featuring a traditional theme in Chinese porcelain, an idyllic garden with an ornamental fence and rockery, from which a flower...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Striking Set 3 Large Antique Colorful Handpainted Chinese Metal Tea Canisters
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Striking large set of 3 antique metal hand painted Chinese tea canisters having wonderful graphic decoration. Colors are orange, black and green.
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Metal
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 Jars
Materials
Enamel
Early 20th Century Chinese Hand Painted FooDog Ginger Jar
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Antique Chinese Famille-Rose porcelain Ginger Jar was 100% hand made and hand paint from famous Chinese Famille-Rose Porcelain. It has beautiful hand painted foo dog...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
A Pair of Late 18th-Early 19th Century Chinese Lidded Jars
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of late 18th-early 19th century Chinese beautifully painted famille rose lidded jars. Very impressive with iron straps to secure and lock the lids. Jars are raised on 5" woode...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Blue and White Baluster Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This blue and white baluster jar was made in the Jiangxi region of China. The landscape scenes hand painted by feathery brushstrokes are richly evocative and bring to mind ancient Ch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Large Blue and White Porcelain Lidded Urns or Jars
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain lidded urns with classic form featuring foo dog handles on top and hand decorated with an auspicious composition of fruit trees and birds in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Chinese Export Melon Form Pottery Tureen with a Squirrel on Top
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a Chinese export hand painted nut form tureen / dish with a squirrel finial! It is unmarked and in very good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Pottery
Mid Century Black Cloisonne Ginger Jar
Located in New York, NY
Chinese Export Mid Century Black cloisonne ginger jar featuring large scale chrysanthemum flower. Hand Made.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Brass
Vintage Oriental Ginger Jar, Large, Polychrome Ceramic, Mid-Late 20th Century
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage oriental ginger jar, a large, brightly decorated polychrome ceramic with lid, dating to the mid-late 20th century.
Of Classic ...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Off-White and Light Blue Vine Pattern Lidded Porcelain Ginger Jars
Located in New York, NY
4 Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) lidded porcelain ginger jars with a swirling light blue dense vines and spaced floral motifs against off-white backg...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Blue and White Jars with Lids
Located in Bradenton, FL
Pair of Chinese blue and white vases with lids.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export jars for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export jars 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 jars created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, asian art and furniture, 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 jars made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and China pieces for sale on 1stDibs. 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 jars differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $68 and tops out at $27,000 while the average work can sell for $1,095.
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