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Ceramics For Sale
Period: Late 20th Century
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: 1920s
Chinese Kangxi Mark & period 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
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 Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Ming 1620-1644 Chinese Porcelain Kosometsuke 5 Horses Plate Tianqi
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Chinese blue and white porcelain Dish of beautiful shape and design. Central scene of 5 horses.
Early 17th century, marked at base.
In symbolism a horse is a wish for a Good job. ...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Chinese Porcelain Ginger or Temple Jars Famille Rose Hand Painted Qianlong
Located in Katonah, NY
This exceptional pair of 18th-century Chinese porcelain jars is hand-painted in vibrant famille rose enamels with blooming peonies, chrysanthemums, and plum blossoms in brilliant sha...
Category
Mid-18th Century Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Antique ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns, Thailand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns, Thailand of squat globular persimmon form with pinched sepal ridge and curled stem finial top decorated in a caramel brown and translucent white glaze on the stoneware biscuit in a saw tooth design at the shoulder and foliate vine scroll pattern on the body, two incised bands near the foot with a trimmed countersunk unglazed base with traces of the pontil firing scar. The interior of the base with a thin translucent glaze the interior of the lid unglazed. Tight fit of top to bottom. Evidence of a repair to a large chip to the interior rim of the base and two further small chips unrestored, the top clean without any restorations, overall fine condition. Measuring 2-3/4 in. high x 4” in diameter. (7cm x 10.2cm)
Weight: 11 oz. (300g.)
14th/15th century.
Ex Collection: by descent, Don Christensen, Penang, Malaysia.
For similar examples see:
Siamese Pottery...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Folk Art Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Islamic Pottery Bowl with Figurative Paint Kashan Ware
Located in Atlanta, GA
An earthenware bowl supported on a foot ring decorated with elaborate slip paint. The bowl was likely made in Kashan (in nowadays Iran) during 12-14th century, in Khwarazmian Empire,...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Persian Islamic Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Two Antique Japanese Ceramic Ko-Seto Chaires
Located in Atlanta, GA
A collection of two ceramic chaires (Tea caddies) of Ko-seto ware type from Edo period Japan circa 17-18th century. This type of small jar was made of stoneware in old Seto kilns in ...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Antique 18th century Antique Kangxi Yongzheng Chinese Porcelain Imari Plate
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Chinese Imari porcelain tea caddies, Kangxi period, of canted corner form, painted in overglaze iron red and gilt and underglaze blue. With floral panels and original lids
Condit...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Martaban Storage Jar
Located in Savannah, GA
A large brown glazed Martaban storage jar, c. 17th-18th century.
Tapering ovoid form with molded sides depicting dragons, cranes and floral ornamentation.
Six dragon head looped ...
Category
18th Century Burmese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Tang Dynasty Brown Glazed Jar with Lug Handles, 9th-10th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A fine Tang dynasty (618 to 906 AD) brown glazed jar with applied lug handles, circa late 9th or early 10th century, China.
The jar of somewhat st...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Shuen Yoshida Signed Vintage Japanese Hagi Ware Japanese Pottery Bowl with Box
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful Hagi Yaki Ware pottery Chawan tea bowl by renowned Japanese potter Shuen (Shoen) Yoshida (1940-1987). Yoshida was an apprentice of Miwa Kyusetsu (1910-2012) who was awar...
Category
1970s Japanese Showa Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Antique 1622-1722 Kangxi Period Chinese Porcelain Plates with Conchshell Mark
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nicely decorated Blue and White plate with a stunning scene. Compartments with landscape and floral scenes and central a landscape scene with birds. Marked...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Platter, circa 1770
Located in New York, NY
Chinese Export pseudo-tobacco-leaf pattern platter, circa 1770.
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Ceramics
Ming Dynasty Vase with Vibrant Turquoise Glaze
Located in Atlanta, GA
Ming Dynasty (16th century) pottery vase with vivid turquoise glaze, decorated with dragons. The vase is partially moulded, with circular bosses around the mouth rim and a hexagonal ...
Category
16th Century Chinese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Antique Khmer Bird Shaped Ceramic Lime Pot
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Khmer Ceramic Lime Pot. A squat globular stoneware jarlet in the form of a bird covered in a thick dark brown glaze stopping short of the elevated string cut foot displaying the beig...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Cambodian Other Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
pair of Chinese turquoise glazed porcelain foo lions/dogs
Located in New York, NY
a female and a male foo lion/dog
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Japanese Gennai Ware Vase
Located in Hudson, NY
18th century Japanese Gennai Ware vase, known for its bright coloring, Gennai Ware was produced by Hiraga Gennai (1728-1780), a scientist and intellectual who lived in what is now Shido, Kagawa Prefecture. Gennai Ware is stylistically similar to Kochi Ware which is an early Chinese pottery...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Export Macgregor of MarcGregor Armorial Porcelain Platter C. 1760
Located in Atlanta, GA
The arms are MacGregor of MacGregor, Argent an oak tree eradicated in bend sinister surmounted of a sword in bend bother proper, in the dexter canton an antique crown gules ; crest, A lion’s head proper (crowned with an antique crown). The supporters are Dexter a unicorn argent (crowned), sinister a deer proper ; and motto “Men do and spare not."
The Clan MacGregor had been outlawed and the very name forbidden after the battle of Glenfruin (1603) until the end of the 18th century, and the family used the name of Murray. John Macgregor...
Category
18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Annamese Molded Blue and White Ceramic Box, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Annamese Molded Blue and White Ceramic Box, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, circa 1500. The cover delicately decorated with a central floral medallion from which radiate six conjoined ruyi la...
Category
16th Century Vietnamese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Antique Ancient Sueki Sue Ware Wabi-Sabi Art Pottery Vase Storage Jar
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, unique, and handcrafted piece of ancient Japanese Sueki Sue ware pottery dating back to the 500-600s (6th-7th century). Sueki/ Sue pottery was a blue-gray form of stonew...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Japanese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Antique Thai Fish Bowl, Sukhothai Kilns
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Thai Fish Bowl, Sukhothai Kilns. A deep stoneware bowl with black slip painting of a fish with his tail extending beyond the concentric band on center, further band decoratio...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Folk Art Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Edo Period 1680-1690 Japanese Porcelain Dish Kakiemon Figures Bird Animal Flo
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nice Edo period, 1680-1700, example. With a garden floral scene, figures and birds and a nice brown rim.
Marked at base with a Fuku mark...
Category
18th Century Japanese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Antique ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns, Thailand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns, Thailand of paneled globular form with a brown glazed flat top having incised bands around ...
Category
16th Century Thai Tribal Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Eight Thousand Butterfly Plates
Located in Wilson, NC
Set of eight thousand butterfly plates, the butterfly represents the warmth of summer and harvest.
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Porcelain Green Umbrella Stand 1970s
Located in Paris, FR
This is an umbrella stands which was made in Japan around 1970 in showa era.
It is made with porcelain. The colour of this umbrella stand is light green and it has some leaves motif....
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Ochre Brown Glazed Martaban Jar, Ming Dynasty, 15th-16th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and large Chinese brown ochre glazed stoneware storage jar, commonly known as a Martaban or Martavan jar, Ming dynasty, 15th-16th century.
The elegant ovoid jar with a slen...
Category
16th Century Chinese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
17th Century Kangxi Chinese Blue White Porcelain Plate Charger Artemisia Leaf
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
A large antique Chinese porcelain blue and white Kangxi charger
Blue and white ceramic deep dish.
Material: Chinese porcelain, Ceramic
Style: Chinese, A...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Antique Chinese Jun Ware Porcelain Tripod Censer Light Blue Crackle Glaze Ming
Located in Richmond, CA
This antique Chinese censer is a remarkable example of Tang-style Jun ware, a highly esteemed ceramic art form. The piece features a compressed circular body, elegantly transitioning into a ribbed neck that culminates in a dished rim. The form is both classic and functional, designed to serve as a censer for incense burning.
What sets this censer apart is its extraordinary glaze work. The base layer is a crackled light...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Kangxi period Plate porcelain Finely Hand Decorated, circa 1700
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautifully hand painted Chinese Export porcelain Plate from the Qing, Kangxi period, (1662-1722), circa 1700.
The plate is of large dinner plate size with a 10 inch di...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Blue and White Bird Feeder from the Hatcher Cargo
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small blue and white bird-feeder of circular form with short neck, one side set with two small loup handles, the base slightly pointed, painted with lotus heads growing from scroll...
Category
1640s Chinese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Khmer Pedestal Jar, 12th century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Khmer Pedestal Jar, 12th century. A sturdily potted earthenware globular form on a raised and waisted pedestal base decorated with bands at the shoulder and tightly packed applied pe...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Cambodian Other Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Qing Hand-Painted Porcelain Teapot and Cover with Shou Emblem
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine antique Chinese Qing porcelain teapot hand decorated in bright colored enamels and dating from the Early 20th century. The teapot of rounded cylindrical shape is incised and h...
Category
1920s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Antique cup Chinese Porcelain London Bont Yongzheng Blue White China
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this fantastic Chinese Porcelain set of cups with redecoration done in London.
The flower mark at the base is also added later. All 4 pieces have one.
11-3-25
Co...
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Khmer Brown Glazed Lidded Stoneware Pot, 12th - 14th Century, Cambodia
Located in Austin, TX
An attractive small Khmer brown glazed stoneware honey or oil pot, 12th to 14th century, Cambodia.
The small pot of compressed globular form and glazed in a deep brown glaze with ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Cambodian Antique Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Chinese Export Porcelain Dish Blue and White Hand Painted Kangxi 1700
Located in Katonah, NY
This beautiful blue and white porcelain dish was made in China during the Kangxi reign (1662–1722).
It was created specifically for export to the European market.
Measuring 8.25 inch...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Four Chinese Snuffboxes or Snuff Bottles, Porcelain Enemaled early 20th c
Located in Labrit, Landes
Set of four snuff bottle made in the early 20th century
Porcelain, colored glass and onyx (one plug is in onyx, please see photos).
various dimensions: between 2.76 in. and 1.97 in. ...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Onyx
Chinese Qianlong Porcelain Floral Painted Export Teapot
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A good antique Chinese Qianlong dynasty porcelain export teapot painted with floral designs for the Western market and dating between 1736 and 1795. T...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Porcelain Dish Blue and White Hand Painted, Qing Qianlong
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautifully hand-painted Chinese porcelain Dish, dating to the middle of the 18th century, Qing, Qianlong period, circa 1750.
The dish is circular, well potted, with rib...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Wanli / Tianqi Ming Chinese Porcelain Kraak Chinese Taste Figural Plate
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this new arrival and very happy with it. Late Ming period Kraak plate of exceptional quality in cobalt blue of larger size. In general the piece is already of high q...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Korean Inlaid Celadon Ceramic Oil Bottle, Goryeo Dynasty
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Korean inlaid celadon oil bottle, squat globular shape with narrow neck and mouth having an impressed rope pattern revealed in white slip , on the shoul...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Korean Other Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Large Antique 18C Qianlong period Chinese Porcelain SE Asia Famille Rose Charger
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice, rare and beautiful colors in enamel in, Floral design, second half 18th century
These wares and their specific characteristics of wild colour and thick enamel have all the cha...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Ceramic Vase with Rampaging Dragon
Located in Lomita, CA
The 21st-century blue and white ceramic vase, adorned with a motif featuring three dragons playing in clouds, represents a modern interpretation of traditional Chinese ceramic artis...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Chinese porcelain Famille Rose Teapot with Cover
Located in Delft, NL
18th Century Chinese porcelain Famille Rose Teapot with Cover
An early Qianlong enameled porcelain teapot with a scene of birds and Peonies in a g...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Porcelain Plate or Bowl Qing Kangxi Mark and Period, Ca 1700
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautifully hand painted Chinese Export porcelain Plate or Bowl from the Qing, Kangxi period, 1662-1722, fully marked to the base with the Kang...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Plates, Pair
Located in Astoria, NY
Pair of Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Circular Plates, Qianlong Period, circa 1760, with hand-painted rose flower motifs. 9.25" Diameter x 1" H. Provenance: Lynda Willauer An...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Lobed Bowl
Located in Astoria, NY
Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Lobed Bowl, Qianlong Period, circa 1760, with hand-painted floral and fruit motif and label to underside. 10.25" Diameter x 2.75" H. Provenance:...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Painted Porcelain Articles, 2
Located in Astoria, NY
Two Chinese Export Painted Porcelain Articles, circa 1750, comprising: bullet shaped teapot with silver spout, and oval reticulated platter with figural scene to the center. Silver t...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue & White Pale Celadon Dishes, Pair
Located in Astoria, NY
Pair of Chinese Blue and White Pale Celadon Porcelain Dishes, Ming Dynasty, 17th century, each with molded foliate design and cobalt blue geometric design to center. Each approx.: 1....
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Blue and White with 'Rockwork and Flowers' Dish, Qing dynasty
Located in seoul, KR
This dish features a rockwork design that was popular during the Mid to Late Ming dynasties. The blue-and-white underglaze effectively captures the vibrant tones typical of the late Ming and early Qing periods. The detailed depiction of flowers, leaves, and rockwork is both rich and vivid. Due to its excavation from the seabed, the glaze in the central area shows signs of wear, particularly compared to the more preserved sides of the dish. Although it was soaked in hot water to remove the salt at the time of acquisition, slight salt residue remains on the surface.
Period : Qing Dynasty(Presumably Kangxi or Yongzheng Period)
Type : Dish
Medium : Blue and White glaze
Condition : Excellent(slight salt residue remains on the surface, and the glaze is worn primarily around the edges.)
Provenance: Southeast Asia, South China Sea from Shipwreck in early 2000s
Reference :
1) Christies Newyork 22 MAR 2018 - The Studio of the Clear Garden: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art - Lot 604
(Price realised : USD 732,500 / Type : related - Ming style)
2) Sotheby's London 4 November 2020 - Imperial Porcelain – A Private Collection - Lot 19
(Price realised : GBP 75,600 / Type : related - Yuan style)
3) Asian Art Museum, San Francisco - Object number B60P88
(Type : related - Ming style)
4) Art Institute Chicago - Reference Number 1997.390 - Large Foliate Dish with Garden Rock and Plants
(Type : Closely related)
* Yuan-Ming Style from Qing Dynasty
During the Qing dynasty, many ceramics were produced that imitated the styles of the Ming and Yuan dynasties. This practice was not mere imitation but a creative endeavor to inherit and innovate upon past techniques and styles. Qing dynasty ceramicists mastered the exceptional techniques of Ming and Yuan ceramics and used them as a foundation to develop more advanced works. Particularly, Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelain...
Category
Early 18th Century Vietnamese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Fine Chinese Handmade Purple Clay Yixing Zisha Tall Handle Teapot
Located in Danville, CA
Here for your consideration is a fine sample of Chinese art work, a fine Yixing Zisha purple clay teapot, lovely slim round body form with tall arch handle...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Kangxi Very Rare Blanc De Chine Porcelain Cockerel, 1662-1722
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An extremely rare and finely made Chinese Kangxi porcelain blanc de chine figure of a cockerel. The cockerel stands on a shaped base with good feather detailing and stands crowing wi...
Category
Late 17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Plate Blue & White Aster pattern, Qing Qianlong Circa 1745
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good Chinese porcelain circular deep plate or dish, made for the export (Canton) market, which we date towards the end of the first half of the 18th century, in the ea...
Category
18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Blue and White Baluster Vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Era, Circa 1690
Located in seoul, KR
Spirally moulded and painted with bands of overlapping petal panels of figured riverscapes
Period : Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
Production Date : 1690-1699
Made in : Jingdezhen
Destination : Netherland
Found/Acquired : Southeast Asia , South China Sea, Vung Tau...
Category
1690s Vietnamese Chinoiserie Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Chinese 17th C Wanli Ming Dynasty Plate Dish Porcelain Chenghua Marked
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
A rare Ming blue and white Porcelain dish. Great quality decoration Three Friends of Winter. Chenghua marked.
Box included.
Condit...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Martaban Jar, Ming Dynasty
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a large Chinese 17th Century Stoneware Martaban Jar. Martancan Jars were created to store food items such as grain, tea, oil, etc. The ...
Category
Late 17th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ceramics
Materials
Terracotta
Chinese Sui Dynasty White Glazed Jar with Loop Handles, 6th-7th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A simple and elegant Chinese high fired white glazed jar with four lug handles, Sui Dynasty (581 to 618), probably Heibei Province.
The voluptuou...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Kraak Edo Period 1680-1690 Japanese Porcelain Huge Charger Arita
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nice edo period, 1680-1700, example. With a garden floral scene.
Marked at base:
made in the Hua Qing period of the great Ming Dynasty
Arita ware, also known as Arita-yaki, has its origins in 1616, when a Korean farmer, Yi Sam-pyeong, discovered white clay kaolin in Arita and used it to create Japan’s first porcelain. Arita was the first place to produce ceramics in Japan. After the discovery, a number of kilns opened in the area and it soon became a source for Japanese export porcelain...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Chinese Qing Yellow Glazed Black Floral Porcelain Jardiniere
Located in Danville, CA
Here is a rare yellow ground black floral porcelain jardiniere from late Qing period. This entire jardiniere has yellow ground with black ink like floral paintings. A very large globular body with white enamel glazed interior. It has some normal wear and tear on the bottom foot, but there is no crack or any repair. It has a red marking "Ti He Dian Zhi" near the top rim. "Ti He Dian" was the dining hall of Empress Dowager...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Qing Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
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.