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Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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.

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Style: Chinese Export
Figural Asian Vase in Bronze Double Sided Art
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents Figural Asian Vase in Bronze Double Sided Art pear shaped 11.5 h x 8.5 w x 4.25 d Preowned original vintage condition Refer to images
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Early 20th Century Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Mid Century Monumental Chinese Calligraphy Vases, A Pair
Located in Waxahachie, TX
Mid-20th century Monumental brown, white and red glazed ceramic hand painted calligraphy floor vase. Interior finished in white. Signed in red by artist on body, no base marks. Pie...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Pair of Unusual Chinese Porcelain Vases with Molded One Hundred Boys Decoration
Located in San Francisco, CA
An amusing and charming pair of Chinese porcelain vases with molded One Hundred Boys decoration with original custom hardwood stands. The vases depict 3 young children climbing an a...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain, Hardwood

Chinese Monumental Imari-Style Lidded Light Orange Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, 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-...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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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...
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1770s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic, Porcelain

Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain American* Market Landscape Vases Covers
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain American* Market Landscape Vases & Covers China, Circa 1800 * American/ European Market, considered to the Chinese to be the same market, by many. it's been suggested the front and back vignettes of houses in landscape on this model, were painted from a European print the Chinese porcelain workshops acquired. A extraordinary find, a pair of Chinese Export Porcelain American/ European Market painted in sepia, colors and gilt vases & covers, with twelve (12) placed American/ European and Chinese motif vignettes. Each vase complete with its original cover/ lid with gilt recumbent foo-dog, with two front and back oval vignettes of a Chinese tree in landscape. Each of the baluster vases, exquisitely hand-painted front and back with a similar American/ European topographical view of country houses with trees landscape. (The Chinese porcelain workshops probably copied these scenes from a European print) Surrounded by an elaborate painted and enameled trellis with vines and leaves. Some traces worn, additional gilt decoration is evident. Both sides of the vases are decorated with an upper elongated cartouche painted...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Blue White Double Happiness Spice Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
The symbol for double happiness adorns this round tea leaf jar with best wishes for love, companionship and marital bliss. Glazed in the classic blue and white manner, the porcelain jar has a rounded form with a slight taper and is topped by a flat lid, a traditional shape for jars used to hold Chinese...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Pair of Chinese Baluster Vases in Nanjing Crackle Glaze
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A pair of large ceramic Chinese crackle glaze baluster vases, commonly known as 'Nanjing' porcelain. Dating from the 19th century, these elegant polychrome enamelled vases...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

20th Century Vintage Chinese Bronze Incense Burner
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Chinese Antique Carved Bronze incense burner has very detailed hand craft works around the body, elephants trunk as legs and handle and lotus bud on the lid of incen...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Fine and Rare Pair of Large Rose Medallion Lidded Vases, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality large pair of 19th century Chinese rose medallion or Cantonese lidded vases, each with female figures as finials and handles to the sides. Having the classical gr...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Double Happiness Blue White Ceramic Ginger Jar
Located in Bradenton, FL
A blue and white Chinese ceramic ginger jar with lid. Hand-painted with the double happiness symbol framed with a floral motif in bold cobalt blue. Marked underneath “Made in China”.
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Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Chinese Han Dynasty-Style Patinated Bronze Footed Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-style copy of a patinated bronze urn carved with raised geometric patterned bands wrapping its form, sitting atop a round foot, and fitted with two curved...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Metal

Two Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Vases with Gilt Bronze Bases
Located in London, GB
These porcelain vases are exquisite pieces of antique Chinese decorative art. They were crafted in the late Qing dynasty, which lasted f...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Bronze, Ormolu

Pair of Chinese Celadon Revolving Pattern Porcelain Urns
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Chinese celadon porcelain urns with continuous raised swirling motifs flowing up the slender, fluted necks. (PRICED AS PAIR). Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Early 20th Century Chinese Hand Painted FooDog Ginger Jar
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent Antique Chinese Famille-Rose porcelain Ginger Jar was 100% hand made and hand paint from famous Chinese Famille-Rose Porcelain. It has beautiful hand painted foo dog...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese White and Blue Figurative Porcelain Ginger Jar
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese white porcelain jar decorated with blue figures amid scroll detailing with a finial topped lid. Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

19th Century Antique Chinese Carved Bronze Vase
Located in Pomona, CA
Very nice antique Chinese bronze vase decorated with a carved low relief idealized frieze with Chinese traditional forks art of Kin Lin sym...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Large 19th Century Chinese Rose Medallion Vase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A large very good quality 19th century Chinese Cantonese (Rose medallion) vase, having the classical green ground with classical scrolling foliate and motif decoration, inset painted...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Blue and White Shizi Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
Images of shizi, a lion-dog symbol of power and strength of character, cavort among the stylized clouds of heaven on this hand-painted covered jar. Original...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Pair of Chinese Blue White Dragon Motif Jade Pot Spring Bottle Porcelain Vases
Located in Queens, 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...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Pair of Chinese Teal Nine-Peach Porcelain Vases
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Chinese (Mid-20th Century) teal porcelain vases depicting a playful figurative scene of children at play in and around a peach tree and nine ripe peaches in total, symbolizin...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Off-White and Blue Symbol Patterned Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) large, off-white porcelain urn painted with a blue pattern featuring Buddhist symbols and other shapes with accented blue scrolled handles.  
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese White and Blue Chrysanthemum and Bird Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) white and blue porcelain urn decorated with a bird amid flowering chrysanthemums, and accented with two navy scrolled handles along the neck. Sl...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Porcelain Chinese Vase, Satsuma, 1970 s.
Located in Praha, CZ
The vase is hand-decorated with painted scenes, figures in kimonos. The decoration is richly interwoven with gold color and fine lines very typical for Satsuma ceramics Signed Origin...
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1970s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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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...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Glass

Vintage Japanese Takenaka Copper Vase
Located in Pomona, CA
This beautiful Copper vase was made by famous metal ware company Takenaka Bronze Works. I was hand made of bronze with detailed carving works on it and has ma...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Copper

Post Qing Dynasty Cinnabar Ginger Jar Stand
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Post Qing Dynasty Cinnabar ginger jar & stand Exquisite high relief carved continuous landscape motif, complete with hardwood stand. Unmarked. T...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Hardwood, Lacquer

Antique Chinese Celadon Blue And White Vase
Located in Norwood, NJ
A large antique 19th century Chinese floor vase having a celadon ground and blue and white underglaze decoration to the body. The underglaze decoration is of a large Foo lion above ...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

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...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Large Chinese Dragon Vase in Patinated Bronze, Late 19th Century
Located in København, Copenhagen
Large Chinese dragon vase in patinated bronze. Late 19th century. In very good condition. Stamped. Measures: 39 x 20 cm.
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Chinese Blue White Jar with Mythical Fu Lions
Located in Chicago, IL
This round, porcelain storage jar is brightly glazed in the classic blue-and-white manner. A combination of stenciled linework and hand-brushed shading, the sides of the jar are deco...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Pair of Antique Chinese Branches Birds Patterned Porcelain Rouleau Form Vases
Located in Queens, 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...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

Materials

Porcelain

Chinese White and Blue Nature Motif Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) large white, porcelain urn with a scene of blue flora and fauna, and two dark blue scrolled handles along the neck. Light wear with some damage ...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

A Pair of Tall Chinese Export Porcelain Figural Vases with Birds and Flowers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Pair of Tall Chinese export porcelain figural vases. The ovoid porcelain bodies decorated with colorful flowers, tropical birds, tree...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Early 20th Century Chinese Cloisonne Enameled Tripod Censor/Incense Burner
Located in Pomona, CA
Museum Quality Chinese Champleve Cloisonné Incense burner of monumental size standing on a wonderful carved hardwood base. Gilt brass with enamel decoration, reclining elephant with ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Copper

Classic Pair of Antique Chinese Blue and White Lidded Wedding Jars
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Timeless blue and white antique Chinese lidded wedding jars that make elegant accessories.
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Oxblood Red Glazed Chinese Melon Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
The melon shape is respected by the Chinese not only as a form but as a symbol for proliferation. These contemporary ceramics call back to the Song Dynasty (960 to 1279) when artisan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Teal and Red Crackle Porcelain Moon Flask Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) teal moon flask porcelain vase decorated with a red crackle overlay and topped with two stepped handles (mark on bottom, see photos). Condition: ...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Blue and White Peacock Motif Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) large off-white, porcelain urn with a blue peacock amid florals and two blue scrolled handles along the neck. Light wear."
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese White and Pink Cherry Blossom Tree Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Chinese white porcelain urn decorated with dark pink cherry blossom branches growing up its form, and accented with white foo dog doorknocker ...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

China Republic 1912-1960 Inside Paint Carved Rock Crystal Vase Silver Enamel
Located in Miami, FL
An impressive China inside-painted vase in rock crystal. Beautiful and one-of-a-kind art-piece. created in China during the first years of the China-republic, circa 1912-1949. Thi...
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1940s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Multi-gemstone, Rock Crystal, Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel

20th Century Blue Chinese Antique Famille Rose Porcelain Vases
Located in Pomona, CA
Look at this magnificent Chinese antique Famille Rose porcelain vases. It was hand made and hand paint from famous Chinese Porcelain. Ea...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Pair of Chinese Canton / Rose Medallion Vases / Lamps, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of 19th century Chinese rose medallion vases, each with wonderful bold pinks, blues and green coloring, exotic bird handles on either side, lizards circling ...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Monumental Cracked Chinese Oil Jar with Repairs
Located in Dallas, TX
The Brendan Bass Estate Collection is an homage to the beauty of vintage and antique pieces, each artfully concealing endless stories collected through the generations in which they...
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19th Century Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Pottery

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...
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18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Blue and White Perpetual Harmony Baluster Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This contemporary lidded baluster jar continues the centuries-old tradition of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain ware. Painted with cobalt pigments for a brilliant blue finish, the ja...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Squared Famille Rose Ginger Jar with Ritual Vessels, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully commemorated on this squared ginger jar, tripod censers and bronze ritual vessels have been used for thousands of years in Chinese cultur...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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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...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Antique Handpainted Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Bowl
Located in Brea, CA
an antique handpainted red Chinese porcelain big bowl, there is a pattern in the bottom of the bowl, mark hand painted. , Measures: 10” x 4.5 ''bow...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Pair of Chinese Oxblood Red Fluted Vases
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Chinese oxblood red vases with fluted necks, accentuated by figurative ears holding wooden rings, leading to bulbous lower halves, atop a small, round foot (priced as pair). ...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Rust Agate Vessel
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese rust agate (vessel) urn with a carving in relief and ring sides holding a loop handle with a cover having carved bats. (modern hanging stand 8½"w x 11¾"h)
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Marble

Chinese Celadon and Blue Dragon Motif Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
"Chinese celadon porcelain vase painted with a blue dragon amid the clouds and made with a small mouth opening. Some wear to finish."
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Green and Botanical Hand-Made Tole Lidded Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese hand-made, light green tole urn painted with branches, fruit, and a dark green band at the base and finished with a finial atop its lid.  
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Metal

Antique Chinese Urn Shaped Orange Foo Dog Design Porcelain Vases
Located in Queens, 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...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Blue White Jar with First Scholar
Located in Chicago, IL
Loosely brushed with cobalt blue pigments, this round, blue-and-white storage jar is underglazed with a celebratory procession of young boys leading a mythical qilin. Also known as k...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese White Green and Yellow Vegetal Winter Melon Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th century) winter melon-form porcelain vase decorated with an incised, white bottom half that grows into verdant abstracted vegetal and peacock shapes on th...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Celadon-Glazed Molded Fish Brush Pot
Located in New York, NY
The cylindrical body molded with overlapping waves and applied with leaping carp; the underside bearing a molded apocryphal Daoguang seal mark.
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Celadon, Porcelain

Monumental Cracked Chinese Oil Jar with Repairs
Located in Dallas, TX
The Brendan Bass Estate Collection is an homage to the beauty of vintage and antique pieces, each artfully concealing endless stories collected through the generations in which they...
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19th Century Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

Materials

Pottery

Chinese Black and White Cherry Blossom Tree Motif Porcelain Jar
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese black porcelain jar with red and white cherry blossom trees growing from a green pastoral scene at the base. Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Pair of Antique 19th Century Japanese Porcelain Multicolored Lacquered Vases
Located in New York, NY
A monumental and unusual pair of antique 19th century Japanese porcelain poly-chrome lacquered vases. Each is beautifully designed with...
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1870s Japanese Antique Chinese Export Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Chinese Export vases and vessels for sale on 1stDibs.

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