Chinese Export Vases
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
Huge Mid-20th Century Chinese Hand Painted Rose Medallion Floor Vase With Lid
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Chinese Rose Medallion Tall floor vases/Huge Ginger Jar also know as "Export Porcelain" vase was hand made and hand painted in about 1950 - 1960s with gilt foo dog ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Export Porcelain Large Five-piece Famille Rose Garniture of Vases
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Large Five-piece Famille Rose Garniture of Vases,
Circa 1775-80
The Chinese Export porcelain flattened baluster vases and covers are of a large size with ra...
Category
1770s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Chinese Export Porcelain Vases and Covers, c. 1775
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine pair of Chinese Export porcelain vases and covers. Dating from the third quarter of the 1700s, and originating in the Jingdezhen region of China, near the important China Trad...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export 20th Century Blue and White Porcelain Vase with Dragon Motifs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Chinese Export blue and white porcelain vase from the 20th century, with dragon motifs. Created in China during the 20th century, this blue and white porcelain vase features a nice...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Petite Famille Verte Canton Vase, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Dated to the 1920s during China's Republic Period, this petite vase is decorated in a style known as Canton enamel, so named for the long-standing industry of export enamels based in...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Copper
Petite Famille Verte Canton Vase, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Dated to the 1920s during China's Republic Period, this petite vase is decorated in a style known as Canton enamel, so named for the long-standing industry of export enamels based in...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Copper
Petite Famille Rose Canton Vase, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Dated to the 1920s during China's Republic Period, this petite vase is decorated in a style known as Canton enamel, so named for the long-standing industry of export enamels based in...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Copper
Pair 19th Century Hand-Painted Chinese Vases
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair 19th Century Hand-Painted Chinese Vases are stunning works of art, rendered on fine Kaolin clay and illustrative of the mastery of the art attained by master artisans with hundr...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Black & Gilt Brass Fish Scale Cloisonné Vases, with Stands
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Chinese Black & Gilt Brass Fish Scale Cloisonné Vases, with Stands
China, circa 1980s
This elegant pair of Chinese black and gilt brass ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Brass, Copper
Mid-20th Century Vintage Chinese Hand Made Cloisonne Vases - Pair
Located in Pomona, CA
This pair of magnificent Chinese Cloisonné Vases are the perfect decor piece. With beautiful floral design, it is a majestically hand crafted work of art that is sure to capture ever...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Copper
Chinese Blue and White Character Lidded Ginger Jar Vases
Located in New York, NY
3 antique Chinese (Late 19th century) similar ceramic ginger jars with blue floral designs surrounding bold, centered characters and geometric patterned bands leading to brown rustic...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Hand Made Chinese Cloisonne Vase
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Chinese Antique Cloisonné Vases is the perfect decor piece. with beautiful floral and bird design, it is a majestically hand...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Copper
Chinese Green Glazed Lotus Motif Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese green glazed lotus motif vase, with three handles.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Blue & White & Incised Porcelain 'Jiangnan Mountain' Cylinder Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese Blue & White & Incised Porcelain 'Jiangnan Mountain' Cylinder Vase, China, 19th Century
A rare and unique Chinese Blue and White Incised Porcelain 'Jiangnan Mountain' Cylin...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Chinese Black Glaze Pottery Vase
Located in Pomona, CA
Our wonderful collection of handmade old vintage Chinese hand made glazed pottery vase will make great accent pieces for any room of your house. It has some imperfection signs of age...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Pottery
Mid-20th Century Chinese Enamel Porcelain Vases, Pen Holder
Located in Pomona, CA
This Vintage yellowish pea green glaze Porcelain square vase is hand made with hand painted enamel scenes of chrysanthemums, peonies, butterfly, and other nature motifs surrounded by...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Chinese Rouleau Shaped Green Foliage Design Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (late 19th-early 20th Century) porcelain vases with rouleau forms and a design depicting branches growing across a verdant green leafy background with pink fl...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Monumental Imari-Style Lidded Light Orange Porcelain Urn
Located in New York, NY
Chinese monumental, lidded porcelain floor vase celebrating Japanese Imari ware in both palette and design, featuring natural scenes of birds and flowering trees set against a light-...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Urn Shaped Orange Foo Dog Design Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
Chinese porcelain vase with an urn-shaped form and swirling orange foo dog designs on a grayish-beige background. (Previously broken and repaired. Matching in-tact vase: NWL2688)
Co...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Tang Dynasty-Style Sancai Glazed Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese Tang Dynasty-style vase crafted with the traditional tri-color glaze, or Sancai, utilizing brown, green and off-white, and with a glazed ochre...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Blue & White Dragon Motif Jade Pot Spring Bottle Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese blue and white porcelain vases with jade pot spring bottle forms traditionally found in Chinese porcelain, a dragon design that is painted in the style of the Yuan D...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Jingdezhen Tri-Color Phoenix-Tail Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) porcelain phoenix tail vase with a Jingdezhen style tri-color overglaze with a deep green, swirl-patterned ground and pale pink, yellow and blue ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Monumental Imari-Style Figurative Scene Lidded Urn
Located in New York, NY
Chinese monumental lidded floor vase celebrating Japanese Imari ware in both palette and design, featuring medallions with figurative scenes agains...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Yellow Pear Shaped Ceramic Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (early 20th Century) yellow, pear-shaped porcelain vases with crackled finishes, gold rims, and teal interiors (mark on bottom, see photos) (PRICED AS PAIR).
...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Yellow Garlic-Mouthed Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) yellow porcelain vases with garlic-mouth forms (mark on bottom, see photos) (PRICED AS PAIR).
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Doucai Double Ear Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese (early 20th Century) porcelain double ear vases decorated using Doucai techniques - a process combining underglaze and overglaze decoration - and handles referred to ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Aubergine and Blue Changing Glaze Bulbous Vase
Located in New York, NY
Chinese bulbous vase made with a glaze that transforms after being fired in the kiln, resulting in traces of blue showing through the main aubergine/purple color.
Condition: Good; W...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Chinese White Famille Rose Pear-Shaped Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of similar Antique Chinese (early 20th Century) famille rose porcelain vases with pear-shaped forms decorated with pink and yellow florals, lily pads, cranes, and gold rims on o...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Yellow and Blue Floral Meiping Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (19th Century) yellow porcelain Meiping vase decorated with blue florals and geometric bands around the top and the base (mark on bottom, see photos).
Condition: Goo...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Fluted and Scalloped Celadon Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese celadon porcelain vases with tall fluted necks and scalloped openings (PRICED AS PAIR).
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Style Monumental Porcelain Floor Vase
Located in New York, NY
Asian Chinese style (19/20th Cent) monumental porcelain floor vase with orange, blue & white colors and floral decoration with scalloped top.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with a...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Multi-Color Pattern Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese vases decorated with all-over swirling floral motifs intercepted by yellow patterned bands at the bottom and top of the base and striking blue designs wrapping concav...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Peach, White and Blue Dragon Motif Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
Chinese porcelain vase crafted in the style of the Yuan Dynasty depicting a raised and glazed blue and white dragon against a matte, peach colored ground, and decorated with geometri...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Guangcai Gilt Floral Porcelain Sleeve Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese Guangcai porcelain sleeve vases decorated with ornate floral and figurative scenes in palettes of pink, green and yellow with top...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of Antique Chinese Branches & Birds Patterned Porcelain Rouleau Form Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (late 19th-early 20th Century) porcelain rouleau-form vases with a pattern featuring sprawling tree branches and foliage in greens, pinks, and browns, and bir...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Dragon Design Porcelain Meiping Vase
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th Century) white porcelain Meiping vase decorated in a dynamic blue dragon motif.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White Globular Kylin Motif Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
Chinese (late 19th Century) white, globular porcelain vase with colorful kylin beasts, symbolizing good luck, amid geometric and floral designs.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent wit...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Cobalt Blue and Incised Dragon Motif Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese cobalt blue vases in ginger jar shapes, covered with incised patterns of dragons and curvilinear designs, and bearing small white rectangles featuring blue characters...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Chinese Peacock and Floral Patterned Porcelain Rouleau Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (late 19th-early 20th Century) porcelain rouleau-form vases with a pattern featuring a large multi-colored peacock amidst branches and florals against a beige...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Chinese Rouleau Shaped Potted Tree Design Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (late 19th-early 20th Century) porcelain vases with rouleau forms and a design depicting potted trees with characters extending up the necks. (PRICED AS PAIR)
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Chinese Black Glazed Phoenix-Tail Form Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (late 19th-early 20th Century) porcelain phoenix tail-form vases with black glazed exteriors and white interiors (PRICED AS PAIR)
Condition: Good; Wear consi...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Oxblood and White Natural Motif Meiping Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
Chinese porcelain Meiping vase in a red oxblood hue decorated with a white natural motif capturing the silhouettes of birds, vines and leaves.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Chinese Beige and Orange Foo Dog Patterned Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (late 19th-early 20th Century) porcelain urn-form vases with a pattern featuring swirling orange foo dogs against a gray-beige background. (PRICED AS PAIR)
C...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Olive Porcelain Beaker Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (late 19th Century) ceramic vases with a deep green teadust glaze and beaker-shaped forms (mark on bottom, see photos) (PRICED AS PAIR).
Condition: Good; Wea...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Chinese Court Genre Scene Design Porcelain Rouleau-Form Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (late 19th-early 20th Century) porcelain rouleau-form vases with central designs of a court scene with figures in conversation surrounded by colorful geometri...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Sage and Tonal Motif Tall Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
Chinese sage-colored porcelain vase decorated in an incised floral and swirling pattern that travels up the curves of the body to the concave neck, before the shape flares out once a...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Purple Glazed Porcelain Pear Shaped Vase
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) purple glazed ceramic vase with a pear-shaped form, a gold rim along the mouth, foo dog ornamentation along the neck, and a bright teal blue inter...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Burgundy and White Dragon Motif Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese ceramic burgundy vases decorated with the white silhouettes of dragons wrapping around their pear-shaped forms (PRICED AS PAIR).
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Dragon Motif Porcelain Meiping Vase
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese white porcelain Meiping vase decorated in a swirling blue dragon motif.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and Purple Glazing Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th Century) blue vase with purple and pink glazing that creates an ethereal effect across its pear-shaped form.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age an...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Burgundy and White Botanical Motif Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese porcelain burgundy vases decorated with white motifs capturing the silhouettes of birds amid nature, wrapping around their pear shaped forms (PRICED AS PAIR).
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Urn Shaped Orange Foo Dog Design Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
Chinese (late 19th-early 20th Century) porcelain vase with an urn-shaped form and swirling orange foo dog designs on a grayish-beige background.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent wit...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Yellow Gourd Shaped Double Handled Porcelain Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) yellow porcelain vases with gourd forms and handles (mark on bottom, see photos) (PRICED AS PAIR).
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Pink and White Porcelain Double Gourd Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese (late 19th Century) white porcelain vases with pink pastoral scenes sweeping around the double gourd forms, and red and gold patterned bands at the bottoms, centers a...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Cobalt Blue and Incised Motif Meiping Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Chinese cobalt blue vases in Meiping shapes, covered with incised patterns of dragons and curvilinear designs, and bearing small white rectangles featuring blue characters (P...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Style Black and White Floral Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of Asian Chinese style black and white cylindrical shaped flared top vases with green and pink floral decoration (19/20th Cent) (one with a hairline crack) (PRICED AS PAIR)(matc...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 3 Chinese Style Black and White Porcelain Temple Jars
Located in New York, NY
SET of 3 Asian Chinese style black and white temple jars with covers having green and pink floral decoration (19/20th Cent) *One with a hairline crack. (PRICED AS SET) (matching pair...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Olive-Colored Porcelain Meiping Vases
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of similar antique Chinese (early 19th Century) Meiping form porcelain vases in a deep olive green teadust glaze (mark on bottom, see photos) (PRICED AS PAIR).
Condition: Good;...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export vases for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export vases 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 vases 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 vases made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and China pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original vases, popular names associated with this style include Ben Owen III, CANTON FAMILLE ROSE, Capo Di Monte, and Europa Antiques. 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 vases differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $175 and tops out at $45,000 while the average work can sell for $1,725.
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