Chinoiserie Porcelain
CHINOISERIE STYLE
Emerging in the 17th century, chinoiserie appropriated the aesthetics and imagery of popular East Asian design for European-made versions. Reflecting the exoticization of China, Japan and other countries in this era, the word directly translates from French to “Chinese-esque,” which reveals its shortcomings as a style of furniture and decor that often stereotypically and reductively mimics Asian culture rather than showcasing and paying tribute to its artistic traditions.
The enthusiastically decorative chinoiserie style was propelled by influential tastemakers including French King Louis XIV, whose Trianon de Porcelaine in 1670 was inspired by Chinese architecture. Expanded trade between the East and West led to a demand for porcelain, lacquer objects, silk and other goods, which further informed the fanciful furniture being crafted in Europe.
Artisans working in the chinoiserie style used materials and elements like pagoda shapes, bamboo, lacquer surfaces, bird and flower motifs and other interpretations of Asian design on pieces that were frequently set against vibrant wallcoverings. This whimsical approach yielded chinoiserie furniture that boasted dramatic flourishes drawing on the natural world and reflected the dominance of Rococo during the 18th century.
As chinoiserie was shaped by approximations of Asian design by European creators, it had regional variations, such as Chinese Chippendale in England where cabinets, chairs and tea tables had wooden fretwork designs and “japanned” surfaces intended to resemble lacquer work that was created in East Asia. In North America, furniture makers in Boston and New York integrated chinoiserie-painted scenes into Queen Anne furniture.
Antique chinoiserie furniture has continued to be fashionable, from its popularity with decorators of the Hollywood Regency era — James Mont, Tommi Parzinger, William Haines and Samuel Marx favored the style — to contemporary interior designers, although it brings with it a complex history.
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Style: Chinoiserie
Breakfast Cup & Saucer, Saint Cloud, circa 1725
By Saint Cloud
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A most attractive and unusual pattern on this early example of French porcelain. While suggests a coffee cup to modern eyes, the decoration of tea plants in flower definitely says th...
Category
Early 18th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Old Paris Garrniture Set
Located in Hudson, NY
This very finely painted set of Old Paris vases is perfect to decorate a mantel or large server. The painting all by the same hand is done in the chinoiserie style and of the best qu...
Category
19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinoiserie Handpainted Porcelain Dish Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Hands-free painted porcelain dish with a chinoiserie decor in orange. Rimmed with a platinum frame. Handpainted by Sofina Porzellan Bavaria. Comes in different colors.
Category
2010s German Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French Paris Porcelain Blue and White Chinoiserie Style Open-Work Vases
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of French Paris porcelain blue and white chinoiserie style open-work vases. Each is beautifully hand painted with tiffany blue chinoiserie figures of a boy and girl in a field...
Category
1880s French Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot in the Famille Rose Style, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Small pot with loop handle, curved spout and domed cover with ball finial, the body painted after the Famille rose with chrysanthemum, flowers and leaves, all from mauve rocks on gre...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Punch Pot in the Famille Rose Style, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1757
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A large tea-pot, or perhaps a punch pot, of globular form with loop handle. Painted in a vibrant wet palette after the Chinese. A most attractive example, of...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Garniture, Jabberwocky Pattern, Worcester, circa 1765
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An assembled set of three vases in the scarce Jabberwocky pattern, on a scale blue background.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Punch Powl, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rather splendid punch bowl from the Bow Porcelain Factory, enameled with flowers and insects in the Famille Rose style. A good size, at almost nine inches in diameter.
Famille R...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Miniature libation cup, Dehua, Qing Dynasty, C1700
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Chinese porcelain libation cups of this period represent a fascinating aspect of Chinese ceramic art and cultural history. The Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) was renowned for its porcelain...
Category
Late 17th Century Chinese Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Plate Disheveled Birds, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1767
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of silver shape with lobed and gilt dentil edge; the well with a landscape of exotic birds enameled in a brilliant palette all on a festoon of dense green-black foliage, the rim with insects and exotic butterflies.
The bird painter...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Tall Coffee Can with Prunus Decoration, Bow C1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A Blanc de Chine Coffee can with straight sides and simple loop handle, and with one finely detailed prunus spray and two smaller sprays.
An unusually ta...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Cup in Canton Porcelain and Gilt Bronze, circa 1880
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Basin-shaped cup in Canton porcelain. Decor of four large cartouches framing Chinese style every day life scenes on a white background filled with roses and other vegetal scrolls. La...
Category
19th Century Asian Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Bamboo and Pagoda", Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with Bamboo and a pagoda. Underglaze B mark.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Sutherland; Aubrey Toppin; Charles Dyson.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Polychrome "Strutting Bird", Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can from the bow porcelain factory, naively painted with the ‘Strutting Bird’ pattern.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinoiserie Set of four Cups German Hand-Painted Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
These completely handturned porcelain cups with saucers are hands-free painted in a traditional Chinese decor. Comes as a set in four different colors. Blue, pink, celadon and grey. ...
Category
2010s German Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinoiserie Handpainted Porcelain Vase Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Hands-free painted porcelain vase with a chinoiserie design with flowers and butterflies all around. Lined with a green line and rimmed with a platinum frame . Hand-painted in Bavari...
Category
2010s German Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinoiserie Handpainted Porcelain Vase Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Hands-free painted porcelain vase decorated with a chinoiserie scene with flowers and butterflies in orange. Platinum rimmed. A porcelain dish with the same decor can be ordered.
Abo...
Category
2010s German Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot, Red Coat Pattern, China, circa 1740, Decorated in London by Giles
By James Giles
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A superb example of Chinese porcelain, redecorated for the English market in London, probably in the Giles studio. ‘Man in a red coat’ pattern with gilded rock strata.
Unusually, ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Desirable Residence", Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Painted in under-glaze blue with the Desirable Residence pattern, featuring telegraph poles, and unusual feature for this period.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Mercury Antiques Melbourne...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Cup with Famille Rose decoration, Bow Porcelain, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A direct copy of a Chinese shape, decorated with chinoiserie painting of typical motifs in the famille rose palette.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Swans & Pagoda", Bow Porcelain, circa 1765
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Decorated with an under-glaze blue print of a Chinese landscape, featuring a man at the window of a pagoda, admiring swans on the lake.
Bow didn't produce very much in the way of ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot, Stag Hunt Pattern, China, circa 1740, Decorated in London by Giles
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Chinese export porcelain teapot with underglaze blue decoration; decorated for the London market in the James Giles workshop with the S...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Tankard with Famille Rose Decoration, Bow C5145
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Baluster-shaped tankard, decorated with a pattern taken form the Chinese, in the famille rose-verte palette. It is amusing to note how the house on a hill in the original has been me...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Porcelain and Doré Bronze Candelabra, Barbedienne, Edouard Lievre
Located in New York, NY
A very unusual pair of antique French doré bronze and Chinese Export porcelain, orientalist style, three-light candelabra designed by the outmost renowned French orientalist designer; Edouard Lievre, and finely executed by Ferdinand Barbedienne.
Each crafted in rich orientalist design with three very fine hand chiseled ormolu elephant...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
Porcelain Large Meat Platter with Matching Drainer "Chinoiserie" Design
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is an amazingly large meat platter with hand painted chinoiserie style polychrome enamel decoration, 19th century. The 2 piece set includes the...
Category
19th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Enamel
Coffee Cup and Saucer Laughing Buddha, or Pu Tai. Worcester, circa 1762
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Bell-shaped coffee cup with wish-bone handle, and saucer, decorated with the Put Tai or Laughing Buddha pattern.
This class of decoration on Worcester is like to have been perform...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1759
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Plate, circa 1758-1760:
Small octagonal plate, the well printed in blue underglaze with La Dame Chinoise (also called the Promenade Chinoise) showing a tall oriental lady with tw...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Covered Vase, Famille Rose Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A vase and cover, decorated with peonies &c in the Famille Rose style. Incised R mark group.
Prov Taylor Collection; Simon Spero; Joseph Handley.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Teapot in Blanc De Chine, Worcester, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A blanc de chine teapot, with moulded decoration of a fishing scene – considerably rarer than the more common flowers.
Barrel shaped “blanc de chine' teapot with ridged loop handl...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Tea Bowl and Saucer, Pencilled with Boy on a Buffalo, Worcester, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very fine tea-bowl and saucer, with a pencilled decoration of the pattern Boy on a Buffalo, after the Chinese.
The porcelain is eggshell-thin, something Worcester did for only a...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Georgian "Vase and Flower" Pattern Mason's Patent Ironstone China
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a group of fourteen (14) hand-painted Mason's Ironstone luncheon plates, in the "Vase and Flower" gilded pattern, from their earliest George III Period, circa 1818. These pl...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Ironstone
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Ribbon Landscape", Bow Porcelain, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a Chinese landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Roderick Jellicoe.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Libation Cup, Dehua, Qing Dynasty, C1650
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Blanc de Chine cup of a shape copying earlier cups which were carved from 16th century rhinoceros horns.
Lucious Dehua porcelain, moulded and heavi...
Category
Mid-17th Century Chinese Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Famille Rose & Prunus Plates, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine pair of plates with raised decoration of prunus, and painted with a famille rose pattern.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Cup and Saucer in the White, Chelsea, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A lovely little cup and saucer, decorated with prunus blossom. Cups with this form of handle are rare, but documented.
Raised anchor mark to saucer.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Famille Verte Porcelain Inkwell by Samson
By Samson & Cie
Located in Paris, FR
Small famille verte porcelain inkwell decorated with enameled flowerpots, foliage, and stylized rinceaux. The inkwell is set on a gilt bronze b...
Category
Early 20th Century French Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
19th C. Porcelain Large Meat Platter with Matching Drainer "Chinoiserie" Design
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is an amazingly large meat platter with hand painted chinoiserie-style polychrome enamel decoration. The 2-piece set includes the rare matching...
Category
19th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Enamel
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Residence", Bow Porcelain, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a large residence in a Chinese landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Watney Collection.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Flowers and Insects", Bow Porcelain, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with flowers and insects. Painter’s mark 16 and a distinctive way of painting insects.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Christie’s.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Plate, circa 1755-1760: Octagonal plate, the decoration after an oriental original (possibly from the region now modern Bhutan), with four robed ladies walking through a stylized lan...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Butter Boat, Two Peony Rockbird Pattern, Worcester, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A particularly successful dish, formed in the shape of a leaf, and decorated with underglaze blue painting after the Chinese.
The Two Peony Rockbird pattern is a traditional Chine...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bowl with Chinoiserie Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of Bow porcelain, decorated in ‘wet’ famille rose colours; featuring a peony, a bird on a branch, and another in flight. Sacred Scrolls to the interior.
A superb ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pierced Tea Bowl, Dehua, Qing Dynasty, C1635
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This is a stunning antique Blanc de Chine double walled tea bowl! This elegant piece is perfect for collectors and enthusiasts for antique china...
Category
Mid-17th Century Chinese Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Tea Bowl and Saucer, Richard Chaffers of Liverpool, circa 1760
By Richard Chaffers
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A porcelain tea bowl and saucer from one of the Liverpool makers, painted with a chinoiserie scene. The use of the white porcelain to form the shin...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Cabbage Dish, "The Magician" Pattern, Worcester, circa 1758
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early dish in the form of two cabbage leaves, with the polychrome decoration known as ‘The Magician’. A cheerful, colourful pattern, well drawn and with an amusing name.
The bord...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Famille Rose Tea Bowl & Saucer, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A delicate tea-bowl and saucer, decorated after the Chinese in the Famille Rose palette. This style of painting, known as 'wet enamelling', is very attractive but quite scarce in Bow...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Two Large Seated Meissen Porcelain Wiggling Pagodas, By J.J. Kaendler, Ca 1840
Located in Vienna, AT
Depiction of two seated, smiling Chinese Buddha figures from a series of folk types:
Voluminous bodies with hair tied back strictly, wearing robes that cling closely to the body, bel...
Category
1840s German Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can Blue and White "Peony & Bamboo" Bow Porcelain, circa 1754
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with peonies and bamboo. The painting links with the William Pether 1754 jug.
The decoration is taken directly from Chinese examples, and was intended to compete with Chinese imports.
Peonies and bamboo are both commonly depicted in Chinese porcelain decoration. Peonies, also known as the "king of flowers," are often depicted in Chinese art as a symbol of wealth, nobility, and good fortune. Bamboo, on the other hand, is a symbol of integrity, resilience, and longevity. Together, peonies and bamboo are often used to symbolize the harmonious balance between wealth and integrity.
Chinese porcelain with peony...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Cross-Legged Man", Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with the cross-legged man pattern. An early and unusual shape for this scarce pattern.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Robyn Robb.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Sparrow-Beaked Jug, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1763
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A small pear-shaped milk jug, with a transfer-printed outline, filled with wet enamels, in the Chinese Mating Chickens pattern; the rear with symbols of pomegranate, leaves and censer.
Prov: Taylor Collection; John Wilson Antiques 2008.
Catalogue Entry:
Of small pear shape on a high footrim; sparrow...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Polychrome Mug Tea Ceremony, Worcester, circa 1754
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Scratch cross type mug, decorated with the tea ceremony pattern.
Incised line to base near handle.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Dessert Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Circular plate, the well outlined and transfer printed in black/brown outline and filled-in with 'wet' enamels all with Chinese figures in a garden and a child playing with an excite...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Egg Cup, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Modelled after a small Chinese blanc-de-Chine wine cup of Dehua, Fujian Province; the bowl with three single prunus sprigs. Thick glaze with some crazing around base. Green translucency. Base glazed but partially wiped.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Parkside Antiques Melbourne...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Scholar's Rock" Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with a Scholar’s Rock and associated items.
Prov. Taylor Collection; Stockspring Antiques.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Banana Trees", Bow Porcelain, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with banana trees in a landscape.
Prov: Taylor Collection; Parkside Antiques.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Samson Vases
By Samson & Cie
Located in London, GB
A very ornate pair of Samson Paris porcelain vases, entirely hand-painted in Cantonese chinoiserie fashion, heavily gilded, circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Coffee Can, Blue and White "Man at the Window" Bow Porcelain, circa 1760
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Painted in under-glaze blue with a pattern possibly depicting a reluctant bride.
Provenance Taylor Collection; Mercury Antiques.
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Handpainted Chinoiserie Porcelain Pastry Dish Sofina Boutique Kitzbühel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Completely handmade porcelain dish is hands-free painted in a traditional Chinese decor in green. Comes also in grey and in orange.
Rimmed with a fine platinum line. Handmade in Bava...
Category
2010s German Chinoiserie Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinoiserie porcelain for sale on 1stDibs.
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