Chinese Famille Verte porcelain vase, 1911-1948

Chinese provincial porcelain trumpet form vase on a flaring foot. This diminutively scaled vase is decorated fully in the round in cobalt under glaze blue with blooming peony bough and a magpie fluttering on a branch. This vignette bears auspicious symbols for beauty, wealth and joy. The peony is the queen of all flowers in China and it symbolizes wealth and beauty. The magpie is a harbinger of happiness, thus its name "bird of happiness." There is a tiny ding on the flared mouth rim and also on the foot ring. The dark spots of various sizes represent ashes that landed on the glaze in the firing process which supports the age of the vase when all porcelain objects were stacked high and fired in a wood kiln. On the underside is a double cobalt ring...

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Mei-ping form hand thrown porcelain vase in an Imperial yellow glaze. The under foot has a cobalt under glaze blue six character seal within a circle of double lines. The seal is an ...

Chinese porcelain covered storage jar with fine delineated auspicious motifs in polychrome colors on a brilliant green ground. Tongzhi reign (1856-1875) chop on the under foot. Chin...

Pair of porcelain Famille Verte vases, made in China in the 1900's. Each vase is a canvas of intricate and traditional Chinese depictions. The Famille Verte style, characterized by i...

Depicting phoenix birds in flight.

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Decorate a table or a console with this colorful antique porcelain vase. Crafted in China circa 1950, the important Family Verte vessel is round in shape decorated with a wide neck a...