Chinese Light Blue Crackled Finish Porcelain Beaker Vase

Chinese teardrop-shaped porcelain vase with an off-white crackle finish, a fluted opening and a hole in the base.    

Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) off-white porcelain vase with an urn form decorated in a light blue, delicate vine and floral motifs and bold characters on 4 sides.  

Beautifully elegant trio of crackle-glazed porcelain vases in cream/bone, sage, and light tan. It is clear that their distinguishing feature is deliberate crackle, or a network of cracks in the glaze, similar to that of Ge Ware...

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...