Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
MING STYLE
In what’s considered a golden age of Chinese furniture, Ming dynasty artisans produced expertly made designs that married elegance and function. Ming furniture was versatile, such as tables that doubled as writing desks and dining spaces. But it was also beautiful, enhancing a room with clean lines, soft curves and sophisticated decoration.
Dating from 1368 to 1644, the Ming dynasty was a vibrant time for international trade and culture. Especially for scholars and the wealthy, there was an emphasis on a home’s design to promote a good life. From large wardrobes to angular sofas, Ming-style furniture was defined by its joinery, which, instead of nails, involved meticulously designed interlocking elements of wood. This material was carefully selected and positioned to make the grain part of the design. The slow-growing huanghuali, a yellowish rosewood, was particularly valued for its bright color.
Although ornamentation was minimal, Ming dynasty furniture often featured carved or painted details of flowers, insects, dragons, fruits and other motifs. Chairs crafted for scholars could include calligraphic brush writing. As overseas trade expanded, techniques from the West, like cloisonné enamel painting, adorned table screens and other pieces.
Ming furniture influenced styles abroad such as Queen Anne in England and Hollywood Regency in the United States. The curved shape of Ming armchairs had a profound impact on legendary Scandinavian modernist furniture designer Hans Wegner. The Danish cabinetmaker shared the Ming artisans’ interest in creating streamlined, functional furnishings, and his China chair, Round chair and Wishbone chair are inspired by Ming dynasty seating. Today, the Ming-style horseshoe chair is a graceful and sought-after type of seat, and contemporary Chinese designers such as Jerry Chen and Gan Erke are also drawing on this heritage for a new era of style.
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Style: Ming
Very rare Kosometsuke Antique Chinese 17c Ming Dynasty Plate China Porcelain
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Beautiful dish in blue and white, with added copper red. This is a Jingdezhen made dish made for the Japanese market. Kosometsuke.
With a floral and bird decoration. Base with a che...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Chinese 16th C Sancai Biscuit Green and Yellow Ghendi porcelain/earth.
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nicely decorated and rare 16th century Ghendi with a green and yellow dragon decoration. It is in very good condition.
Provenance: Collected in the 1980's...
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16th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Porclelain Celedon Planters
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of Chinese porcelain fish bowls with a celadon glaze and embosed floral design. These jardinieres are a nice scale with a beauiful ...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique 17th century Dutch Bellarmine Jug - Baardmankruik - Bartmann jug Rare!
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, "bearded man"), also called a Bellarmine jug, is a type of decorated salt-glazed stoneware that was manufactured i...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique 18th century Dutch Delft Earthenware Plate Based Month of August Porc
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice Dutch Delft blue plate with nice decoration of the month of august
In 18th c chinese style
18th century.
Diameter: 22 cm.
Condition: Typical rimflaws and restoration
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17th Century Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Blue and White Style Dutch Delftware Earthenware Charger, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice Dutch Delft blue plate with nice decoration of the month of august
In 18th c chinese style
18th century.
Diameter: 25.2 cm.
Condition: Typical rimflaws
A beautiful, antique Delft plate...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Ming Period Chinese Porcelain Landscape Figural Dish Kosometsuke
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely early 17th century Kosometsuke dish, made for the Japanese market. We simply fell in love with it. The painting style is very typical for this period but...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Top Quality Wanli Antique Ming Period Chinese Porcelain Kraak Plate Deers
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely potted and painted kraak plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with beautiful scene of deers in a landscape.
Absolute top Quality kraak ware
Condition
1 fir...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Top Quality Antique Ming Period Chinese Porcelain Reverse Decorated Dish LOTUS
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
One of the coolest pieces I have gotten in the last months. Great decoration of two Literati in sitting position under a willow tree. Distant mountains are also visible, as is bamboo...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Ming Period Ko Akae Chinese Porcelain Dish Kosometsuke Flowers Poem
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
One of the coolest pieces I have gotten in the last months. Great decoration with added green and red. This piece has the thing that intrigues me a lot. Green color added to baking f...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique early 20th century Dutch Delft White Glazed Earthenware Vase ca 1910
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A beautiful bottle from De Porceleyne Fles dating from after 1910,
20th century.
Hight: 19.5 cm.
Condition: Two baking flaws to the top rim and classic craquele
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Hight: 19...
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Early 1900s Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique early 20th century Dutch Delft Iznik Style Earthenware Jug ca 1910
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A small, beautifully shaped spherical jug with a slightly tapering neck by De Porceleyne Fles. Dated between 1910–1930, it belongs to the 'Nieuw Delfts' series, inspired by ceramics ...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique early 20th century Dutch Delft Iznik Style Earthenware Vase ca 1910
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A beautiful bottle from De Porceleyne Fles dating from after 1910, part of the 'Nieuw Delfts' series, inspired by ceramics from the Middle and Near East (the Iznik style). The design...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Large Nanban 19C Edo Period Japanese Plate Charger Japan ca 1800-1830
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice shaped polychrome dish. Unusual shape and painting. With overglaze blue. Absolute top quality. Marked with Ju character (felicitation or longevity) at base.
late Edo per...
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19th Century Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Chinese Porcelain 17th Century Ming period Boys and Bird dish
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely little dish from the Late Ming period. Blue and White Porcelain, Tianqi or Chongzhen Period c.1620-1635.
The subject is of two young Chinese boys walking...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Ming Jiajing/Wanli 16th century dish Chinese Porcelain FROG
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this most interesting 16th Century dish.
Small saucer dish with flat everted rim, painted with a frog looking up in a grassy verge beside flowers and tree, the cav...
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16th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Incense Holder / Jardiniere
Located in San Francisco, CA
Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Incense Holder / Jardiniere. A substantial incense holder in the Chinese Ming style. Sides and bottom covered in a r...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Bronze
Tianqi Kosometsuke Antique Chinese Porcelain 17c Ming Dynasty Ni Zan
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this beautiful dish
Visible is a typically painted scene for this period. Mountain landscape with bamboo and clouds house in the right centre. The shape is very nice...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
36CM Antique 17/18th c Kraak Style Blue White Dutch Delftware Earthenware Cha.
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Earthenware dish with a flat rim. Decorated in different shades of blue on a white tin glaze. Central scene of a grasshopper on a rock. These kind of dishes were made after Chinese K...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Japanese sweetmeat set of Kosometsuke dishes. Vintage/modern copy after
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nice sweetmeat set of Kosometsuke dishes. Japanese vintage/modern copy after Chinese ming example.
All with stamp mark to the base.
Pictures of the origi...
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20th Century Japanese Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Chinese Zhangzhou Swatow Slip Decoration Charger Ming Dynasty
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Unusual Majestic and Large Chinese Ming period Swatow Charger.
It's quite difficult to catch the true color of this one in the studio, the photos outside with phone are therefore the...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Ming Period Xieyi Yuan Poem Landscape Chinese Porcelain Kaiseki Dish
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely potted and painted blue and white Kosometsuke Kaiseki dish plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with design of a landscape in the style of the yuan painter ...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Pair 17th C Dehua Blanc de Chine Whistles European figures on a horse
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A pair of Shunzhi or Kangxi Blanc de Chine Porcelain figures on horses.
Blanc de Chine Statues like these were made in the kilns of Dehua in Fujian province.
These are rare example...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Ming Kosometsuke Chinese Porcelain Dish Literati Hongwu Marked
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A chinese Tianqi period, 17th century dish, Jingdezhen Kilns.
Diameter: 17 CM
This porcelain dish is depicting motif of Coin 洪武通宝 Hong Wu Tong Bao (coin of Emperor Hongwu) and auspi...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Pair Antique 18th century Dutch Delft Earthenware Plate Delftware Based On Ch
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice Dutch Delft blue plates with nice decoration of the month of august
In 18th c chinese style
18th century.
Diameter: 23 cm.
Condition: Typical rimflaws
Condition
Good condition...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Large late Ming dynasty Wanli period blue and white kraak ware export porcelain
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely potted and painted blue and white Kosometsuke plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with design of Turkish style Arabesque pattern and central a Lingzhi Fung...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Chinese Porcelain Hatcher Cargo Kraak Ghendi porcelain South China
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this very nicely decorated kraak Ghendi with a geometrical decoration. The piece was part of the Hatcher Collection. Auctioned by Christies Amsterdam in 1984. It is in very good condition.
The Hatcher Junk...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Leaf Shaped Kosometsuke Antique Chinese Porcelain 17c Ming Dynasty serving dish
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this beautiful leaf shaped serving dish on four feet in blue and white.
Visible is a typically painted scene for this period. Mountain landscape with a house in the ...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Chinese 17C Porcelain Ming/Transitional Dish Green Glaze Carved
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely decorated plate with beautiful Green Glaze and a carved underglaze scene of flowers. Possibly Dated to the late Ming or transitional period. But could also be around 17...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Wanli Ming Chinese Porcelain Kraak Plate Fenghuang and Pagoda
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely potted and painted kraak plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with beautiful and rare scene.
Absolute top Quality kraak ware
Condition
some fritting to r...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique Ming Period Chinese Porcelain Dish Kosometsuke Fisherman
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this nice Chinese porcelain dish from the early 17th century. Once again Jingdezhen made but for the Japanese market, Kosomets...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antiquer 17th C Dehua Blanc de Chine Whistles European figure and Cat Dutchman
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Shunzhi or Kangxi Blanc de Chine Porcelain European figure in sitting position. Its also a whistle.
Blanc de Chine Statues like these were made in the kilns of Dehua in Fujian pro...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Tianqi Kosometsuke Antique Chinese Porcelain 17c Ming Dynasty Ni Zan
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this beautiful dish
Visible is a typically painted scene for this period. Mountain landscape with bamboo and clouds house in the right centre. The shape is very nice...
Category
17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Top Quality Wanli Antique Ming Period Chinese Porcelain Kraak Plate Deers
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely potted and painted kraak plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with beautiful scene of deers in a landscape.
Absolute top Quality kraak ware
Condition
some...
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
A Chinese slip-decorated brown-glazed 'three friends of winter' Jar and cover
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this highly unusual Bowl and cover.
The jar has a scene of the Three Friends of Winter, the lid with cranes and other unidentified additions. Truly an amazing piece....
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17th Century Chinese Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Antique 19th century Dutch Delft Earthenware Plate Delftware Porceleine Klauw
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
Nice Dutch Delft blue plate with nice decoration Porceleyne Claeuw Delft - 1658=1840
In 19th with Willem III as a child
18th century.
Diameter: 232 cm.
Condition: Good
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17th Century Dutch Antique Ming Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Porcelain
Ming planters, cachepots and jardinières for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Ming planters, cachepots and jardinières for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage planters, cachepots and jardinières created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, asian art and furniture and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with bronze, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Ming planters, cachepots and jardinières 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 planters, cachepots and jardinières differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $950 and tops out at $1,800 while the average work can sell for $1,375.