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
Maitland-Smith Blue & White Chinoiserie Ginger Jars with Bronze Accents, Pair
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a pair of blue and white transferware chinoiserie ginger jars by Maitland - Smith. The caps and bases are cast bronze. They are in very ...
Category
1980s Unknown Vintage Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Chinese Terracotta Urns / Vessels
Located in Barcelona, ES
Pair of urn shapped terracotta pots or vessels wiht glazed decorations, China, 1930s.
Provincial rustic handmade terracotta wine jars or preserving pots.
The taller one is covered by...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Clay, Earthenware, Terracotta
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
Chinese Export Porcelain Group of Batavia-ware Urns & Covers
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Group of Five Famille rose & Batavia-ware Chocolate-colored Urns & Covers
1750s
The Chinese Export porcelain circular jards and covers are painted with a chocolate Batavia-ware ground with leaf-shaped panels of famille rose flowers-mostly of peonies.
Dimensions: Largest: 7 1/2 inches high x 7 1/2 inches diameter; Second largest: 7 1/4 inches x 6 1/2 inches diameter; Third largest: 5 1/2 inches high x 5 inches diameter; Pair of smaller jars...
Category
1750s Chinese Antique 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
Pair of Antique Chinese Blue/White Temple Jars from Ching Wang Shu XIX Dynasty
Located in Houston, TX
This pair is very old from the Ching Wang Shu XIX Dynasty
And the color is exquisite. They are in good condition with only
A few flea bite tiny chips on the under side of the lids...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porphyry
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
Chinese Famille Rose Soup Tureen, c. 1870
Located in Chicago, IL
This late 19th century covered jar takes its rounded shape from serving tureens used to serve soups and stews. Contrasted by a crisp white field, the lid and sides are decorated with a lively scene of children at play in a courtyard garden. Accompanied by a man and woman, the children are each playing with a different toy, including a kite, a reed organ...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique 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
Chinese White Glazed Ginger Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
A strong but silent 20th century Chinese white glazed porcelain ginger jar with a lid and straight sides. Perfect as is, or filled with flowers, branches, or any other myriad vices y...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Character and Floral Lidded Ginger Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (late 19th century) lidded ceramic ginger jar urn with blue floral designs surrounding bold, centered characters on 4 sides.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Off-White and Blue Pastoral Scene Porcelain Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) small, porcelain jar depicting a blue pastoral scene on an off-white background with an unglazed rim.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Porcelain Famille Verte Jars
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte lidded jars, depicting court officials at leisure, decorated with handles in forms of bats, unmarked.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Famille Rose Baluster Jars with Ancient Censers, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully commemorated on this pair of baluster jars, censers have been used for thousands of years as a part of funeral rites or prayer offerings. Filled with dried aromatic plant...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Dark Blue and White Lidded Porcelain Watermelon Jar
Located in New York, NY
Chinese small porcelain watermelon jar with a dark blue background surrounding a white window pattern and turned wooden lid.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
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
Green Glazed Shiwan Pottery Teapots Qing Dynasty, 'Pair'
Located in Dallas, TX
A near pair of 19th century Sancai green glazed pottery teapots. Both with yoked handles, spouts and lids. Both also have the Republic era official government wax red seal signifying...
Category
1880s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Pottery
Pair of 19th Century Blue and White Lidded Temple Jars/Urns
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of 19th century blue and white temple jars, Chinese or Urns. Each 19 inch large and impressive Urn with a full original lid, measures 15 in High without the lid. The pair signed...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain, Pottery
Chinese Off-White and Blue Vine Lidded Porcelain Ginger Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) lidded porcelain ginger jar with a dark blue vine and floral motif against a white ground, and bold blue characters on 4 sides.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of White and Blue Pattern Lidded Porcelain Ginger Jars
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese white and blue porcelain lidded ginger jars painted with floral and vine motifs, Greek key patterned bands at the openin...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Vine Motif Lidded Porcelain Ginger Jars
Located in New York, NY
3 similar antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) lidded porcelain ginger jars with dark blue vine and floral motifs against white backgrounds, Greek key patterns around the necks, and ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Navy Blue Ginger Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) ceramic ginger jar vase in navy blue with a brown earthenware opening.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese White and Orange Foo Dog Design Winter Melon Porcelain Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) white porcelain vase with an elongated, rounded winter melon form decorated in an orange foo dog on one side and ch...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Famille Rose Ginger Jar with Ancient Censers, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully commemorated on this oval ginger jar, censers have been used for thousands of years in Chinese culture as a part of funeral rites or prayer offerings. Filled with dried a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Earthenware Jar with Blue Characters
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th century) small, earthenware jar with blue characters running down the center framed by thin stripes circling the top and base.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Beige and Charcoal Floral Porcelain Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th century) small, beige porcelain jar with a slight lip and charcoal-colored florals.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and Orange Fish Design Round Lidded Porcelain Jars
Located in New York, NY
4 antique Chinese (Mid 20th Century) similar porcelain vases with orange fish swimming around blue backgrounds - some displaying sponged effects - inspired...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
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 White and Floral Rounded Porcelain Watermelon Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) low, rounded porcelain vase known as a watermelon jar, painted with colorful, flourishing florals on one side and characters on the reverse.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Famille Rose Phoenix and Peony 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 Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Famille Rose Ginger Jar with Ancient Censers, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully commemorated on this oval ginger jar, censers have been used for thousands of years in Chinese culture as a part of funeral rites or prayer offerings. Filled with dried aromatic plants and essential oils, the censer issued fragrant smoke that forged a connection to the spiritual realm.
This late Qing-dynasty jar...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th Century Hand Painted Chinese Porcelain Lidded Jar
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This rather large antique Asian covered jar is unmarked but believed to have been made in China in circa 1880 for the export market. The jar is done with a robin egg blue background ...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese White and Floral Pattern Porcelain Jars
Located in New York, NY
5 Chinese white porcelain, open-mouthed jars decorated in an all-over pattern of florals and foliage in purple, orange and green, accented with gold lotus flowers (Priced each).
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Enameled Teapot with Mythical Qilin, c. 1920s
Located in Chicago, IL
Tea drinking has been an integral part of Chinese culture for centuries, resulting in a wide range of social customs and material traditions. In addition to tea leaves, water, and he...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Maroon and Umber Lidded Porcelain Ginger Jar
Located in New York, NY
Chinese porcelain lidded ginger jar in a finish that shifts within a range of umber, red and maroon, adding dimension to its shape.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Squared Famille Rose Ginger Jar with Ritual Vessels, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully commemorated on this squared ginger jar, tripod censers and bronze ritual vessels have been used for thousands of years in Chinese cultur...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Multicolor Decoration Porcelain Watermelon Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) low, rounded porcelain vase, known as a watermelon jar, incised and painted with an array of decorations including floral arrangements in urns, bells, small...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Parade Scene Rounded Porcelain Watermelon Jar
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) low, rounded white porcelain vase, known as a watermelon jar, depicting a spirited procession of participants holding flags and playing drums lea...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Enamelware Teapot with Mythical Qilin, c. 1920s
Located in Chicago, IL
Tea drinking has been an integral part of Chinese culture for centuries, resulting in a wide range of social customs and material traditions. In addition to tea leaves, water, and he...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Chinese Blue and Orange Fish Design Lidded Porcelain Jars
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese (Mid 20th Century) lidded porcelain jars with orange fish swimming on blue, sponged backgrounds, inspired by patterns from the Ming Dynasty...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Orange Lidded Porcelain Jars
Located in New York, NY
Pair of antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) orange porcelain jars depicting white medallions with imagery of fish, seaweed and pastoral scenes and topped with wooden lids (date mark...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Chinese Famille Rose Baluster Jar with Ancient Censers, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully commemorated on this lidded baluster jar, censers have been used for thousands of years in Chinese culture as a part of funeral rites or prayer offerings. Filled with dried aromatic plants and essential oils, the censer issued fragrant smoke that forged a connection to the spiritual realm. This late Qing-dynasty jar...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Han Amber Glazed Porcelain Jar
Located in New York, NY
Asian Chinese (Han Dynasty 206BC-220AD) amber glazed pottery vase (jar) with a band of animals in relief raised on a modern 2¬O" high base.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Pale Green and Pink Blossom Lidded Jars
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese pale green lidded jars decorated with lily pads and pink lotus blossoms on one side of their round forms and extending up to the lids,...
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Spice Jar, Chinese, Decorative, Baluster, Vase, with Lid, 20th Century
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage spice jar. A Chinese, decorative ceramic baluster vase with lid and dating to the mid-20th century, circa 1940.
Fine baluster fo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Large Blue and White Tea Leaf Jar with Mountain Landscape
Located in Chicago, IL
Tea drinking has been an important part of Chinese culture for at least a thousand years. Emulating traditional blue-and-white porcelain, this contempora...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Spice Jar, Oriental, Ginger, Baluster Urn, Art Deco, 20th Century, 1940
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage spice jar. An Oriental ceramic ginger baluster urn dating to the Art Deco period of early 20th century, circa 1940.
Generously s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Chinese Porcelain Glazed Figural Ginger Jars with Lids, 20th Century
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain glazed decorative figural and floral ginger jars with the original removable lids, 20th century.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Blue and White Scholar's Joy Ginger Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This contemporary ginger jar continues the tradition of Chinese blue-and-white ceramics with classic curves and auspicious, hand-painted decorations. Symbols that would surely give a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
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 Jars
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 Jars
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 Jars
Materials
Ceramic
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 Jars
Materials
Ceramic
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
Blue and White Floral 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 Chinese Double Happiness 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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Porcelain
1960s Set of Two Polychrome Chinese Ginger Jars
Located in Catania, Sicilia
Two hand painted ginger jars hand-crafted in China in the mid-20th century. The decor depicts traditional chinese flowers, the are in lovely condition and marked on the bottom .Hand-...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Black Chinese Clay Vessel, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Sculpted during the early 20th century in China's Shanxi province, this vessel has a smokey grey exterior with balanced proportions and a beautifully irregular unglazed surface. Char...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Jars
Materials
Terracotta
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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