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Ceramics For Sale
Japanese Miniature Hand Painted Porcelain Ginger Jar
Located in New York, NY
Hand painted Japanese porcelain miniature ginger jar with handled top.
Old Japan motifs of a peacock with chrysanthemum flower, dogwood trees, clouds and and butterfly.
Stamped with signature on bottom, T & T Made in Japan Hand paint.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Chinese Inspired Terracotta Pot
Located in Locust Valley, NY
This Vintage Chinese-inspired terracotta pot features a rich brown finish adorned with intricate gold decorative motifs, including phoenixes and stylized patterns reminiscent of trad...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Large Chinese Export Famille Verte Peach Motif Box, Republic Period
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large Chinese Export Famille Verte peach motif box, Republic period, exquisite all over decoration with peaches, trees and flowers. Unmarked.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Cloisonné Vase with Dragon chasing pearl, Qing Period
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative small cloisonné vase, made in China and dating to the second half of the 19th Century, Qing period.
The vase has a g...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Contemporary Iga Stoneware Bowl by Shiro Tsujimura
By Shiro Tsujimura
Located in Atlanta, GA
A contemporary Stoneware Bowl made in the tradition of Iga ware by Japanese ceramic artist Shiro Tsujimura (1947-). In a slightly irregular round form, the de...
Category
Early 2000s Japanese Organic Modern Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Chinese Porcelain Tea Caddy
Located in Clearwater, FL
A gorgeous early 20th century footed porcelain tea caddy in the shape of a diamond. The top on caddy with a Greek key design in a deep blue. The body is hand painted with pink, yello...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Large Chinese Blue & White Ginger Jars
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Vintage pair of striking blue and white ginger jars with lids. Vibrant contemporary design.
Category
20th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Greyish Celadon Glazed Chinese Porcelain Vase
Located in Catania, Sicilia
A simple and elegant well shaped Celadon vase manufactured in China in the early 20th century, the vase is covered overall with a crackled grey celadon glaze. The glaze it's smooth a...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Celadon
Antique Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Medallion Tray
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Chinese Export porcelain
In the Rose Medallion (Famille Rose) style.
The central cartouche of the bowl depicts a flor...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Ceramic Bowl by Shigemori Yoko, Japanese Pottery exhibited in V&A Museum
Located in Fukuoka, JP
A striking hand-thrown ceramic bowl by celebrated Japanese artist Shigemori Yoko (1953–2021), known for her expressive, calligraphy-inspired brushwork and sculptural organic forms. This dynamic piece features an asymmetrical form with bold black abstract strokes against a smooth, white glaze — a signature style that blends traditional Japanese ceramic techniques with avant-garde sensibility.
The gestural brushwork evokes spontaneous ink painting and speaks to the artist’s early training in painting before turning to ceramics. The exterior is subtly textured, with soft ridges from the wheel and slight warping that enhances the tactile, handmade quality of the bowl. Both sculptural and functional, the piece embodies wabi-sabi aesthetics and would make a striking centerpiece or collectible art object.
Shigemori Yoko studied under master ceramicists Kondō Yutaka...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Box, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Box, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, circa 1500. A globular form with concave depression on center of the flat lid, decorated with flower blossom on center sur...
Category
16th Century Vietnamese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Qing Blue & White Porcelain Box, Unsigned, China, Late 19th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Antique Qing Dynasty Blue & White porcelain box with cover - hand painted with the double happiness symbol to the top and meandering vines ...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Mottahedah Style Tobacco Leaf Planter Urn Fishbowl
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Vintage Chinese Porcelain Pottery Koi Fishbowl Jardinière or Planter decorated with vibrant colors in Mottaheda Style Tobacco Leaf Pattern. This piece has been signed on the base.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Rosanjin Kitaoji Signed Shino Ware Chawan Tea Bowl Original Sealed Signed Box
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous Shino ware pottery Chawan tea bowl by Japanese master potter Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883-1959) who was arguably one of if not the gr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Pair, Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Rooster Decorated Dinner Plates
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite pair of Chinese Famille Rose porcelain plates showcases intricate hand-painted designs, featuring a rooster and garden scene surrounded by a richly decorated border. T...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
Large Persian Vintage Hand Painted Ceramic Fish Vase
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Beautiful Persian ceramic vase hand-painted and glazed with colourful fish motif surrounding on yellow color background.
Great object of art for display.
Category
1960s Persian Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Satsuma Ginger Jar Vase, circa Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful small Japanese Satsuma ginger jar vase, circa early-20th century, Japan. Colors include cream, copper, green, blue, white, black, orange...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Pottery
Chinese Kangxi Mark & period Plate or Dish Porcelain Blue & White, Ca 1700
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very beautifully hand-painted Chinese porcelain blue and white large plate or Dish, from the Qing, Kangxi period, 1662-1722.
The plate / dish is finely potted with a caref...
Category
Late 17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage White and Cream Glazed Ceramic Heron Bird Sculpture
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Chinese ceramic life Size heron bird sculpture from the Mid-20th Century, with green glaze, cream accents and textured green base. We have more ceramic heron sculptures ava...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Chinese Porcelain Kangxi Period Tea Caddy Elegant Lady and Child
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this nice Chinese porcelain Tea Caddy from the Kangxi period. It has a dark cobalt blue figural scene with Lady and Boy.
Country of origin: China
Period: Kangxi
Siz...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Kangxi Mark & period Chinese Plate Porcelain Blue & White flower basket, Ca 1700
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautifully hand-painted Chinese porcelain blue and white plate, from the Qing, Kangxi period, 1662-1722.
The plate is finely potted with a carefully cut base rim and a lo...
Category
Late 17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Mid Century Ceramic Foo Dogs on Base
Located in Troy, MI
Acquired at a US estate sale, these porcelain Chinese foo dogs date from the 1960s. Dogs are glazed in green and yellow and sit on separate bases. Measurements shown are of dogs on b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Vintage Thai Bencharong Lidded Jars, 20th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Pair of Vintage Thai Bencharong Lidded Jars, 20th century.
Bencharong enamel decoration with Buddhist imagery on a black background. This porcelain jar and lid form having a raised foot rim and lotus bud on a disk lid finial are richly decorated in bright polychrome enamels in the style of the royal household ceramics favored by the nobility in eighteenth century Siam. This colorful style became known as “bencharong”, a term that derives from two Sanskrit words – panch (‘five’) and rong (‘colour’) and which relates to the number of colors used to decorate such porcelain. These jars and covers are decorated with typical Thai motifs. The sides are decorated with four Thepanom (Buddhist celestial beings) each wearing a broad necklace of petals and seated on a lotus within triangular cartouches that have a coral-red ground. Four Norasingh (mythical forest-dwelling semi-deity with a human head, torso, and arms but with the hind-quarters of a lion and the tail and hoofs of a deer) against black back grounds filled with flaming purple kranok motifs. This design is framed by two floral bands top and bottom. The interior is a covered in a transparent glaze with unglazed lid edge and the gallery interior edge of the lid unglazed.
Condition: Excellent
Each measuring: 5 in. in diameter x 6 in. high (12.7 x 15.2cm)
Each weighing: 1 lb. 5.5 oz. (610g.)
20th century.
Provenance:
Dr. Philip Gould, New York, NY.
Millea Brothers, New Jersey
For similar examples see:
William Warren & Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Arts and Crafts of Thailand, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994, p.33.
Bonhams New York, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art, 17 Sep. 2014, lot 180 With the following notes: Bencharong porcelains...
Category
20th Century Thai Other Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
Chinese Qing Porcelain Blue & White Landscape Altar Candle Holder
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An attractive antique Chinese altar candle holder decorated with a landscape and dating from around 1900. This stylish porcelain candle holder has a domed hollow base with an unglaze...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Longquan Celadon Brush Washer, Song Dynasty (1127-1279)
Located in Bilzen, BE
Chinese Longquan celadon brush washer, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), covered with a sea green glaze, the sides slightly everted at the rim, rising on a tapered foot.
Presented o...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
Raaquu Raku Fired Large Globe Vase S/N0000874 Centerpiece Art Series
By RAAQUU
Located in Petaling Jaya, MY
A mesmerizing sight to behold as soon as the rainbow-like patinas catch your eye. This Globe Vase is a round, capacious piece produced using the Raku technique, resulting in a beauti...
Category
2010s Malaysian Modern Ceramics
Materials
Copper
Iznik Qajar Style Ceramic Tiles - set of 3
Located in Savannah, GA
A set of three Iznik Qajar style ceramic tiles.
largest: 5 ½ by 9 ½ inches
smaller: 8 inches tall
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Ogata Kenzan Signed Japanese Edo Pottery Hand Painted Tea Plate Tray With Box
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully designed and beautifully hand painted tea ceremony tray/plate by esteemed Japanese artist and master potter Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743). Kenzan is widely considered to be...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Paint
19th Century Japanese Porcelain Plate with Hand-Painted Blue and White Décor
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese hand-painted porcelain plate from the 19th century, with blue and white landscape and architecture décor. Created in Japan during the 1...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Rose Medallion Famille Rose Porcelain Charger
Located in Pearland, TX
A stunning antique early 20th Century Chinese Export famille rose porcelain charger plate. Maker's mark on reverse. This lovely larger charger has gorgeous colors in the traditional ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Chinese Blue and White Ginger Jar
Located in Sheffield, MA
A vintage Chinese ceramic ginger jar in traditional cobalt blue and white with a centered character symbolizing “LUCK”. The jar is topped with a lid, A second similar slightly large...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Japanese Imari Charger 16", Edo / Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A large and charming Japanese imari charger with Chinese boys, Edo to Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan.
The large porcelain charger measuring 16" in diameter features high, slo...
Category
1860s Japanese Meiji Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Huge Antique Chinese Porcelain Famille Rose Fencai Double Gourd Vase 19c Qing
Located in Richmond, CA
A grand and splendid antique Chinese vase, crafted in the distinctive double gourd bottle form, showcases meticulous hand-painting in the vibrant fencai famille rose palette. The vas...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
South East Asian Porcelain Celadon Glazed Craquelure Bottle Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish South East Asian porcelain celadon craquelure glazed bottle shaped vase probably Chinese or Korean and dating from the 20th century. The finely made vase is of flatten...
Category
20th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Celadon
Edo Period Japanese Large Octagonal Imari Bowl w/ Eight Vignettes circa 1700s
Located in Savannah, GA
This handsome Japanese Imari bowl is rare for two reasons. First because of the pale colors and second because of the unusual octagonal shape with eight vignettes that surround a lar...
Category
Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Porcelain Charger finely Hand Painted, Meiji Period circa 1880
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good quality, hand decorated Japanese porcelain charger, large plate or bowl with an Imari pattern, dating to the late 19th centur...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Kangxi Octagonal Famille Verte Floral Painted Porcelain Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A scarce Chinese Kangxi porcelain octagonal yen yen vase decorated with vases containing floral arrangements in the Famille Verte palette and ...
Category
1690s Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
A VERY LARGE JAPANESE SATSUMA CHARGER SIGNED BY KYOKUZAN. Meiji Perid
Located in London, GB
A large Japanese Satsuma Charger signed by Kyokuzan.
Meiji Period.
Of a large size decorated with traders crossing a bridge. The majestic Mount Fu...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White "Grape Dish", Ming Dynasty, 16th Century, Jiajing Period
Located in Delft, NL
Large Chinese Blue and White "Grape Dish",
Ming Dynasty, Jiajing Period, 16th Century
Large blue and white "Grape Dish".
Ming dynasty (1368-1644),
Jiaj...
Category
16th Century Chinese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Famille Rose Lidded Ginger Jar
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This vintage Chinese porcelain ginger jar, with its close-fitting lid, is beautifully decorated in the traditional 'famille rose' colour palette of pinks, whites, yellows and greens,...
Category
20th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Lovely quality antique large Japanese imari plate
Located in Ipswich, GB
Lovely quality antique large Japanese imari plate, having a lovely quality antique large Japanese imari plate decorated with trees, leaves, flowers within shaped panels, hand painted...
Category
20th Century Japanese Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Shoji Hamada Japanese Mingei Pottery Plate with Original Signed Sealed Box
By Shoji Hamada
Located in Studio City, CA
An exquisite, unique plate by master Japanese potter Shoji Hamada, a fine early example of his iron pigment brushed and glazed bamboo hakeme motif. The original Hamada stamped or sealed and signed box is included. Rare to find such a beautiful piece in such impeccable condition with its original signed box.
This work is sure to shine in any collection or setting.
Shoji Hamada was designated a Living National Treasure in Japan in 1955. In 1968 he received Japan's highest artistic award the Order of Culture. His work can be found in collections and museums worldwide including Tokyo’s Japan Folk Art Museum and The Tate Museum...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Japanese Large Heavy Banko Ware Ceramic Pottery Stoneware Vase, 19th Century
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic, wonderfully glaze stoneware Banko ware vase with beautifully detailed craftsmanship.
Banko ware pottery is thought to have originate...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Chinese Archaic Style Script Carved Stone Lidded Vessel
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual Chinese archaic style script carved lidded stone vessel probably dating from the Qing dynasty or later. The heavily made vessel is made, we believe, from soapstone and com...
Category
1640s Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Vintage Chinese Court Scene Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1940s Chinese Famille Rose porcelain table lamp with court scence.
Category
1940s Chinese Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Korean Buncheong Joseon Dynasty Antique Glazed Pottery Ceramic Wabi-Sabi Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully and sumptuously blue and white crackle glazed and colored, moon pot shaped, hand-decorated/painted Korean Buncheong porcelain vase. Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). The vase...
Category
19th Century Korean Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain, Pottery
Geode and kintsugi Bizen vase
Located in MEAUX, FR
Restored Bizen stoneware vase with kintsugi and geode
This 13 cm high Bizen stoneware vase is a unique and exceptional piece. Doubly incredible, it was broken and then restored ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Materials
Gold
18th C Chinese Porcelain Plate Blue & White Hand Painted, Qing Qianlong Ca 1770
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a hand painted blue and white Chinese porcelain plate, dating to the second half of the 18th century, circa 1770, the Qing Qianlong dynasty.
This very good condition of this...
Category
18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
A QINGBAI BOWL Song Dynasty Ex Sotheby's
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Chinese QINGBAI BOWL, Song Dynasty
Height: 6.5 cm Diameter: 17.5 cm
Provenance: Sotheby's, London, Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, Lot 77, 06/02/1979
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Glove Mold Arm (1960)
Located in Barcelona, ES
Porcelain Glove Mold Arm (1960)
Technical Description:
The Porcelain Glove Mold Arm, created in 1960, is a refined design piece that combines functionali...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century Japanese Porcelain Imari Plate with Painted Blue and White Décor
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Imari porcelain plate from the 19th century, with hand-painted blue and white floral, foliage and butterfly décor. Created in Japan during the 19th century, this Imari porcelain plate features a delicate blue and white décor...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Rosanjin Kitaoji Signed Oribe Ware Tall Basket Vase Original Sealed Signed Box
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, beautifully decorated large pottery/ceramic basket vase by Japanese master potter Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883-1959) who was arguably one of if not the greatest art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
17th Century Arita Dish Blue White Export Porcelain Charger Ming Edo Period
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Large 17th Century Japanese Edo Period Arita dish Chinoiserie blue and white Wanli Kraak Charger
Material: Ceramic, porcelain
Design: Arita, Ming Dynasty, Wanli style, Chinoiserie
Style: Ming, William and Mary - Louis XIV Baroque, Antique, Asian antique, Oriental
Origin: Japan, Arita, 17th century
Colors: Blue and white, the blue is unbelievable fabulous
Decor: Chinoiserie, Chinese Wanli style known as "kraakdish"
Description: Large 17th Century ceramic...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Japanese Asian Signed Studio Pottery Wabi-Sabi Ceramic Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous Japanese studio pottery chawan tea bowl that features a wonderful reddish-orange glaze with various shifts in colour and texture.
This particular piece encompasses the...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Japanese Contemporary Ko-Imari Gold Blue Porcelain Koro Incense Burner
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Stunning contemporary Japanese Ko-Imari style porcelain koro or incense burner or jewelry box, hand painted on a beautifully shaped round body in cobalt blue, red and green and gener...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Gold
Pair of Small Chinese Garden Seat / Stools / Drinks Tables
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Very unusual pair of brown and white Chinese garden stools. Wonderful contemporary design. Perfect little drinks table.
Category
20th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Porcelain Bencharong Bowl for the Thai Market, 18th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Porcelain Bowl for the Thai Market, 18th century.
Bencharong enamel decoration with Buddhist imagery on a black background. This classic porcelain bowl form having a raised narrow foot rim and slightly everted mouth rim is richly decorated in bright polychrome enamels much favored by the nobility in eighteenth century Siam. This colorful style became known as “bencharong”, a term that derives from two Sanskrit words – panch (‘five’) and rong (‘colour’) and which relates to the number of colours used to decorate such porcelain. This bowl is decorated with typically Thai motifs. The sides are decorated with four Thepanom (Buddhist celestial beings) each wearing a broad necklace of petals and seated on a lotus within triangular cartouches that have a coral-red ground. Four Norasingh (mythical forest-dwelling semi-deity with a human head, torso, and arms but with the hind-quarters of a lion and the tail and hoofs of a deer) against black back grounds filled with flaming pink kranok motifs. This design is framed by two floral bands top and bottom and another double band on the interior mouth rim. The interior glazed in a soft turquoise green and remnants of a floral pattern roundel on center. Sets of porcelain such as this example were commissioned from the Jingdezhen kilns in China and exported to Thailand.
6-7/8 in. in diameter x 3-5/8 high (17.5 x 9cm)
16.7 oz. (475g.)
Ayutthaya Period, 18th century.
Provenance:
German Private Collection.
For similar examples see:
William Warren & Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Arts and Crafts of Thailand, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994, p.33.
Bonhams New York, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art, 17 Sep. 2014, lot 180 With the following notes: Bencharong porcelains...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Glazed Stoneware Baluster Vases, Bien Hoa, Art Deco, Indochina, 1930's
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Pair of Glazed Stoneware Baluster Vases, Bien Hoa, Art Deco, Indochina, Circa 1930
Origin: Bien Hoa, Indochina (Vietnam), early 20th century
Material: Ston...
Category
1930s Vietnamese Art Deco Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
Antique, New and Vintage Asian Ceramics
With their rich and diverse history, antique, new and vintage Asian ceramics offer colorful and sophisticated ways to add flair to any space.
Japanese pottery dates back at least 13,000 years to the Jōmon period. Pieces from the Late Jōmon era display a rope-cord pattern encircling a pot or jug. During the Muromachi period, potters created simple bowls and utensils frequently used in tea ceremonies and were made as both functional and aesthetic objects.
Ceramics made during Japan’s Meiji period, from 1868 to 1912, reflected an explosion of artistic expression propelled by new access to international trade. Details became more intricate and refined, and colors were enhanced with new glazing practices.
Chinese porcelain, meanwhile, is often identified by its shape. Each reign and dynasty had specific shapes and styles that were encouraged by the imperial ruler. During the Song dynasty, for instance, there were four dominant types of ceramic vase shapes: plum-shaped, pear-shaped, cong-shaped (tall and square) and double-gourd.
Chinese ceramics that were made during the Qing dynasty were demonstrative of an expanded artistic expression, with more delicate shapes and a focus on intricate detailing. The shapes of ceramics from this era are thinner, taller and have subtle features like a gentle flare, such as on the mallet-shaped vase.
Later, the 17th- and 18th-century interior design trend of chinoiserie brought Asian paintings and screens, textiles and other art and furniture from the continent into many European homes.
Explore an extensive range of antique, new and vintage Asian ceramics on 1stDibs to find the perfect piece for your home.