Chinese Famille Noire Porcelain Koi Lily Fish Bowl Planter Jardiniere Pot

Large colorful vintage Chinese porcelain fishbowl/planter from the Qing period. Features classic oriental floral motif. Overall, the piece is in won...

Every inch of this fantastic Chinese fish bowl is adorned with hand-painted overglaze enamels, a manner of porcelain decorating known as famille rose. Rendered in pastel shades and gilded accents, famille rose porcelain was popular in the late Qing dynasty (1648-1911) as an export style that melded the technical virtuosity of imperial porcelain with fanciful color palettes that met Western tastes. Beautifully painted with intricate detail and soft shading, the enameled fish bowl depicts the Eight Immortals of Taoist mythology journeying to attend the peach banquet of the Queen Mother of the West. Considered the goddess of longevity, this heavenly deity holds a banquet every 6,000 years to share her peaches of immortality, a myth popularized in the 16th-century novel Journey to the West. The Eight Immortals each ride a mythical beast towards the Queen's mountain palace, surrounded by cranes and spotted deer for further blessings of longevity. The interior of the bowl is decorated as well, enameled with goldfish and underwater flora. Today, we love using a bowl of this scale as an indoor fish pond...

Pair of very large Chinese export porcelain fish bowls or jardinieres in the Famille Rose style measuring 18 inches tall and 21 inches across.

An impressive 'famille-noire ‘magpie and prunus' Floor vase, in very good condition possibly 19th century or earlier note : bears old label of French Collector Count de Semalle'...

Early 20th Century Famille Rose Porcelain Planter. Planter is decorated with a continuous figural family scene of a man, woman, child and elder. All are dressed in traditional garmen...

Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Bowl, hand-enameled with ladies in a landscape scene to exterior and the eight immortals inside, red six character mark to underside, together with har...

The cylindrical body molded with overlapping waves and applied with leaping carp; the underside bearing a molded apocryphal Daoguang seal mark.

Our Qing period Chinese famille noire porcelain vase with rouleau shape featuring lovely plum blossoms on a black ground has been mounted as a lamp with ormolu bronze mounts in the Louis XV style. With fine brass hardware including two sockets and cloth-sheath wiring dating from no later than the 1920s. Provenance: Alan Hartman. An admired collector and dealer of Chinese artwork...

A monumental Chinese famille rose porcelain "Peacock" palace vase, Republic period. Magnificent quality and palace sized Chinese hu-form vase with side h...

A large and impressive Chinese famille noir porcelain vase hand painted with decorative panels with birds, animals and scholars objects dating from the early to mid-20th century. The...