Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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
Large Chinese Export Style Famille Rose Planters / Jardinieres, Pair
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a pair of large Chinese Famille Rose style planters. They are hand painted and lined with swimming koi fish. The body is painted with fruit and pastoral scenes. They are in v...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Chinese Export Famille Rose Koi Fish Bowl Jardinieres Planters Stand 28"
Located in Dayton, OH
An exquisite pair of 20th century Chinese Famille Rose Planters, Jardinières or Cache Pots. Feature ornately decorated hexagonal polychrome porce...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain, Hardwood
Mid-Century Chinese Export / Imari Style Blue and White Footbath / Planter
Located in Kennesaw, GA
Great for gifting or home decor! This is a lovely Chinese Export style footbath. It is hand painted and has gilt accents. Note the interior fish!
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Ceramic
Early 19th Century Chinese earthenware jars containers or Planters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An old glazed stoneware pair of Chinese 'egg post' or planters from Southern China. The pots have a traditional continuous coiling dragon wrapped around the body chasing the eternal ...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Earthenware
Chinese Blue
White Qilin Brush Pot
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush pot, or bitong, was an essential fixture of the scholars' desk. This porcela...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Chinese Famille Verte Fishbowl
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fine Chinese Famille Verte fishbowl, with rich plum enameled background, two finely painted court scenes, the interior painted with goldfish and ...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
$1,560 Sale Price
20% Off
18th-century Chinese Export Porcelain Large Famille Rose Cachepot
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Cachepot,
Circa 1750-60
The very large Chinese Export porcelain cachepot is of cylindrical form with an ...
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Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Canton Cache Pot
Stand
Located in Downingtown, PA
A Gilded Age of Trade: Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Canton Cache Pot & Stand
This striking Chinese Export porcelain ensemble, dating from the 1820s to 1840s, comprises a large hexa...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Antique / Vintage Chinese Cloisonne Vase
Located in Skien, NO
Antique / Vintage Chinese Cloisonné Vase – Early 20th Century
A stunning primitive-style cloisonné vase crafted in the first half of the 1900s. Made of bronze / copper with gold gilt finish, featuring intricate handmade floral and bird motifs against a vibrant blue enamel ground.
--Excellent original condition – no chips or damage
--Desirable age patina
--Rich, detailed craftsmanship
A superb collector’s piece of vintage Asian decor...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Gold Plate, Brass, Copper
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Samson Porcelain Chinese Export Style Bianco Sopra Bianco Jardiniere
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine signed antique French porcelain planter.
By Samson et Cie.
In the Famille Rose style.
With fishscale decoration throughout, white ca...
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Early 20th Century French Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Famille Rose Fish Bowl with Peach Banquet, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
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...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese blue and white jardiniere, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An impressive 19th Century Chinese Blue and White porcelain jardiniere, have bold colouring with classical motif decoration to the boarders, and chrysanthemum and leaf decoration wit...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Finley Moulded Ebonized Plaster Brush Pot Bitong Imitating Carved Zitan
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Chinese finely moulded ebonized plaster
Brush pot bitong imitating carved zitan
20th century
Of cylindrical form, decorated with complex designs
depicting Tang ladies entertain...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Plaster
Early 20th Century Chinese Famille Verte Fish Bowl
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality early 20th century Chinese Famille verte Fish bowl, having yellow ground fan shaped panels with classical Chinese warriors in battle, boarders with geometric motifs to...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Canton Vintage Enamel Gilt Dark-Green-Ground Jardinières
Located in Lomita, CA
The gilt design and gold trim details as well as the deep green ground make this set of Canton Chinese jardinieres unique. This lovely pair of estate sale jardinieres has scenes on b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Enamel
$840 Sale Price / set
42% Off
Old Chinese Export Double Walled Blue
White Porcelain Jardiniere or Planter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine old or antique double walled Chinese porcelain jardiniere.
With a wide blue & white decorated rim above honey comb lattice work double walled sides.
Supported by bracket...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Chinese Brass Floral
Bird Planters with Carved Wood Stands, Circa 1900s
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair Chinese Brass Floral and Bird Planters with Carved Wood Stands, Circa 1900s
This elegant pair of Chinese brass floral and bird planters, made circa ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Brass
Samson Porcelain Jardiniere
Located in Essex, MA
Bright enamels with birds and prunus. Interior decorated with carp and pinwheel lotus design. Stylized cinnabar red dragon heads on each side. From a Montecito California estate.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Imari Porcelain Jardinière Planted Wooden Stand
Located in London, GB
Chinese Imari Porcelain Jardinière Planted Wooden Stand
Chinese, 20th Century
Jardinière: Height 30cm, diameter 38cm
Base: Height 21cm, diameter 36cm
Overall: Height 51cm, diameter...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Asian Blue and White Ceramic Elephant Form Lidded Vase or Box, 20th Century
Located in Doylestown, PA
Unique and charming blue and white Asian crackle glazed ceramic elephant lidded vase or box, 20th century. Beautifully decorated throughout with a fitted lid on top of the saddle wit...
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20th Century Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Ceramic
Mid 20th Century Modern Chinese Decorative Bucket Bronze Handles
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Planter Pot Bucket
Large Antique Chinese Bucket Planter Pot in Bronze
13 tall x 13.85 diameter x 14.25 w
Large bucket with oriental-Chinese dec...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Bronze
Antique Chinese Mother of Pearl Inlaid Hardwood Jardinière with Copper Liner
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Antique Chinese Mother of Pearl Inlaid Hardwood Jardinière with Copper Liner
A magnificent antique Chinese mother of pearl inlaid har...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Coral
$1,960 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Blue and White Jardinière Planter with Dragon and Phoenix Bird
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Classic Chinese blue and white porcelain jardinière with hand painted cobalt decoration. The white porcelain with painted Dragon a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Wine Cooler
Located in Downingtown, PA
Elegant Tableware: Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Wine Cooler
Circa 1775
A finely potted and well-preserved Chinese Export porcelain vessel, functioning as either a wine co...
Category
1770s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Nine 19th Century Chinese Export Spinach and Egg Bowls
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Fine and rare set of five "egg and spinach" Chinese export porcelain bowls. Painted in a Tang Sancai or "Tiger Skin" technique used in the Kangxi perio...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Glass
Large Ormolu Mounted Chinese Porcelain Jardinière
Located in London, GB
A large ormolu mounted Chinese porcelain jardinière
French and Chinese, Late 19th Century
Height 102cm, width 80cm, depth 63cm
Combining Ch...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Chinese Export Polychrome Porcelain Cachepots, 18th Century
Located in El Monte, CA
This pair of 18th century Chinese Export polychrome porcelain cachepot are an exceptional example of antique porcelain made by skilled Chinese artisans for the European market. A sca...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Canton / Rose Medallion Garden Seat
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th Century Chinese Canton / Rose medallion hexagonal porcelain garden seat. The top and sides having pierced decoration to the centres, two rows gilded buttons aroun...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Pair of Chinese Hand Painted Planters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Finley hand-painted with butterfly and bird motif. No cracks or breaks. From a fine estate in Beverly Hills.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
$4,950 / set
Chinese Famille Vert Blue-Ground Planter with Multiple Landscape Cartooges
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and quite large 19th century famille vert blue-ground planter with gorgeous landscape cartooges and floral scenes. This planter is exquisitely hand painted with elaborate...
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1850s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
$8,680 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Cloisonné Vase
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th century Cloisonné vase richly decorated with bright Oriental patterning, chrysanthemum flowers, and birds. Topped with a gold rim, and featuring a bright blue interior, two sides are flanked with golden lion...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Yellow Ground Chinese Famille Rose Planters with Ch. Characters
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous, large, and decorative pair of imperial yellow ground Famille rose Chinese Export PolyChrome planters/vases. Each is beautifully painted in Imperial yellow ground enamels ...
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1880s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Chinese Tapestry design Porcelain Planter
Saucer
Located in Birmingham, AL
Vintage Chinese Planter with Chinese monogram at the bottom Ornately hand-painted with This stunning vintage hand painted porcelain with tapestry style design with green and gold a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Ceramic
$276 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair Of Vintage Window Box Planters, Chinese Ceramic, Blue and White, Decorative
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of vintage window box planters. A Chinese, ceramic blue and white trays, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970.
Charming blue...
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1970s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Archaic Style Patinated Bronze Planter, China, Early 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Archaic style antique bronze planter - large size - featuring fine casting with over-all textured finish, decorative elements and Greek key bord...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Chinese Export Enamel Gourd Cachepots
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Chinese Export enamel gourd cachepots, Each one realistically cast and modeled. Gold plated copper base. Shown with jade plants, not included. 2.5" ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$956 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Large 19thC Chinese Zinc Lined Brass Trough Planter
Located in Altrincham, GB
Large 19thC Chinese Zinc Lined Brass Trough Planter Jardiniere with relief "Eternal Dragon" decorations - 25"w x 15"d x 11"h
Category
1870s English Antique Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Brass, Zinc
Pair of Chinese Black and Gold Tole Scroll Handle Vessel Planters
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Chinese black and gold tole vessels with scrolled handles and a painted fold design of figures sitting amongst a variety of florals on a r...
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Metal
Chinese Export planters, cachepots and jardinières for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export planters, cachepots and jardinières for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage planters, cachepots and jardinières 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 planters, cachepots and jardinières 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 planters, cachepots and jardinières, popular names associated with this style include and F. Barbedienne Foundry. 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 planters, cachepots and jardinières differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $368 and tops out at $216,780 while the average work can sell for $2,050.
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