Chinese Off-White Gourd-Shaped Double Ear Porcelain Vase

Antique Chinese (late 19th century) sky blue porcelain vase with a bulbous base and thin neck flanked by two lug ears at its top.    

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

Chinese off-white porcelain vase with a pear shape carved in a tonal, scrolling botanical pattern (date mark on bottom, see photos).  

Chinese Qing Dynasty Style (20th Century) blue porcelain double-gourd vase with a raised vine and pear pattern that symbolizes a traditional blessing for longevity and abundance, and...

4 similar antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) off-white ceramic vases with urn forms decorated in light blue, delicate vine and floral motifs and bold characters on 4 sides (jars va...

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

Standout pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain vases having a double gourd form, hand decorated with pagoda landscapes.

Beautiful Chinese gourd vase in white and blue porcelain. Good quality porcelain for this pretty decorative object. Two decorations on either side...

Art Nouveau period diminutive porcelain vase in double-gourd form with yellow and blue painted flowers. The piece is in great vintage condition.

A pair of Chinese Plique-à-Jour enamel (translucent enamel) double gourd vases, each one with removable lid, exquisite all-over enamel decoration, each one signed with lotus flower.

Large pair of blue and white Chinese double gourd vases decorated with flowers and scrolling foliage.

This porcelain double gourd vase is a wonderful decorative object realized by a Japanese artist during the Edo period in the early 19th century. Painted with polychrome enamels, it shows on the body a bottom with alveoli on which Stand circular reserves decorated with real and fantastic animals seems to reproduce the zodiac signs. Furthermore, the original blanket is decorated with small sloping triangles and three bands with geometric and floral decorations. At the center of the base "Kutani Fuku" the relief mark. Provenance: Sotheby's Auction, Olympia London, April 23, 2002, lot 254; Private collection, Milan. Certainly, it is a sophisticated piece, with a singular Silhouette, a vase of good luck to propitiate a good year...