Chinese powder blue baluster form vase decorated with gilt tracery, 1800 s

Chinese provincial porcelain trumpet form vase on a flaring foot. This diminutively scaled vase is decorated fully in the round in cobalt under glaze blue with blooming peony bough and a magpie fluttering on a branch. This vignette bears auspicious symbols for beauty, wealth and joy. The peony is the queen of all flowers in China and it symbolizes wealth and beauty. The magpie is a harbinger of happiness, thus its name "bird of happiness." There is a tiny ding on the flared mouth rim and also on the foot ring. The dark spots of various sizes represent ashes that landed on the glaze in the firing process which supports the age of the vase when all porcelain objects were stacked high and fired in a wood kiln. On the underside is a double cobalt ring...

Porcelain ginger jar decorated in cobalt underglaze blue with a stylized Phoenix framed in scolloped cobalt borders, base, and collar decoration. Mounted with a turned hardwood base ...

This fine early 19th century Chinese powder blue glazed gilt overlay vase has a very beautiful and dynamic mottled glaze. The gilded overlay consists of designs of censors and vases ...

A large blue and white Chinese porcelain baluster vase, produced in the late 20th-century in the Kangxi revival style. The body displays a finely hand-painted figural scene in cobalt...