Chinese Peach Bloom Dragon Vase

An exceptional and exceedingly rare porcelain vase or bough pot in the Chinoiserie style. France, early 19th century. Why We Like It Ever fascinated by the exotic and unusual, we h...

A charming Grand Tour style porcelain vase, matte black ground with polychrome decorations in ancient Greek style. English, mid-19th century. Wonderful and rare object for modern or ...

A rare and superbly decorative pair of large scale lidded porcelain vases in the neoclassical taste, each one exquisitely hand-painted in blue and white colours with gilded accents t...

An exceedingly rare pair of fabulous porcelain vases in the Chinoiserie style. France, early to mid-19th century. Why We Like It Ever fascinated by the exotic and unusual, we have a...

Chinese blue-and-white porcelain has inspired ceramists worldwide since cobalt was first introduced to China from the Middle East thousands of years ago. Made in Beijing, this contem...

Fine porcelain Chinese mid-20th century blue and white traditional gourd shaped vase, featuring a large four-clawed dragon. Beautiful cloud motif ...

A large and powerful Chinese famille rose enameled porcelain "Five Dragon" meiping vase, modern, China. The oversized vase of traditional meiping form, with a splayed foot supporting a baluster shaped body with high shoulders, short, narrow neck, and rolled mouth rim. The large vase decorated with five dragons molded in relief. Their bodies painted in vibrant overglaze famille rose enamels of reds, greens, yellows and turquoise. The dragons portrayed dancing in the sky among flames and clouds. Their bodies twisting and writhing, claws extended, tails coiled, some with mouths open in triumphant roars. The main dragon in red, and portrayed to more directly face the viewer. The dragons dance against a white ground sky. The blank sky broken up by overglaze red painted stylized clouds and flames. The foot decorated with a band of crashing waves. A stylized lotus blossom surrounds the base of the neck. The neck with a band of scrolling flowers and vines against a yellow ground. The underside of the large vase with an apocryphal "Da Qing Qianlong Nian Zhi...

This is an elegant porcelain Chinese export porcelain Bottle Vase raised on a low foot, all hand painted in a blue and white dragon pattern, which we date to the mid 20th century, circa 1950. The vase is fairly large and very well hand potted in a Classic bottle shape on a low foot having a clear white glaze with a light blue tinge. The base is also glazed to the centre and the foot rim has been carefully hand-cut. The vase is finely hand painted in a large range of cobalt blue tones from a light blue to a deep dark, almost black tones of cobalt blue, all around the body with two five toed dragons dancing among clouds. There are border patterns around the foot rim and the lower body all between blue circles with double blue circles just below the top rim. The base has a carefully hand painted underglaze-blue six-character apocryphal Qing - Qianlong ( 1736 to 1795) seal mark, though we date this vase to the mid 20th century. Approximate Weight: about 2.3Kg. unpacked. Overall a beautiful Chinese blue and white hand painted Vase