Porcelain

Porcelain is considered more refined and delicate than other ceramic forms. It was first made in China during the Yuan dynasty and its production increased during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Ceramics fired at lower temperatures were usually every day utilitarian pieces using inexpensive clays and colors for decoration made in quantities for the poor. Porcelain continually advanced as kaolin and other minerals were mixed in fine-grained clays, kilns were improved so they could reach higher temperatures and clearer glazes were created. Producing porcelain began by firing a biscuit (an unglazed ceramic body) at a low temperature, adding painted cobalt blue (made from cobalt and aluminum oxide) designs on its surface, covering it with a clear glaze and then firing the piece at very high temperatures. This process created a harder, non-porous, vitrified (glass-like) body that was white, translucent and able to produce sounds when lightly struck depending on how thin the body was. Because porcelain was superior to other types and kinds of ceramics, a huge response ensued for porcelain for domestic and export use.

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    Antique Blue and White Porcelain Miniature Ewer, China (4056B-DKM) $135

    Original price was: $135.00.Current price is: $114.75.
    H: 5.25″ W: 4.625″ D: 2.375″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This charming miniature ewer or small pitcher was made during the Tongzhi Period and probably used in a restaurant or home kitchen as a dispenser for soy sauce, oils or other liquids. With an elegantly curved spout and handle it is covered with chrysanthemums, plantain curved vertical leaves and bindweed vines. The lid has a lotus shaped bud for lifting, and the bottom has a Chinese antique export seal.

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    Antique Blue and White Porcelain Miniature Teapot, China (4056A-ZOK) $175

    Original price was: $175.00.Current price is: $148.75.
    H: 5.25”  W: 4.75”  D: 2.375” | FREE SHIPPING!

    This elegantly shaped small teapot has finely painted cobalt blue chrysanthemum and bindweed designs in the center and upper registers and plantain leaf designs at the bottom, popular underglaze design elements were widely used in late 19th century in domestic and export wares. Below the short neck is a chain of roundels with nineteen spirals, and the lid is covered with bindweed and wave designs, the latter indicating a sea or lake. The lid is topped by a ball handle topped with a four-line star and the bottom has an abstract plantain leaf design. It is in very good condition with two small chips on the lid and a small chip on the end of the spout. The inside has been stained by more than a century of tea brewing.

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    Antique Blue and White Porcelain Scholar’s Brush Holder, China (1933A-DOK) SPECIAL PRICE

    Original price was: $255.00.Current price is: $216.75.
    H: 3.25”  Dia: 3.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This is unusual piece was likely on a scholar’s desk along with pots, brushes, water droppers, boxes, ink stones and other daily used objects used for a variety of tasks: a brush holder, a paper weight and more.  With its round body covered with the landscape of a Chinese village, mountains and seas and the calligraphic name of the scholar owner Shu Dai Ji (舒逮吉) it would be perfect for placement on any style desk or in a study.

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    Antique Ceramic Pillow, China (3847JLS) $105

    Original price was: $105.00.Current price is: $89.25.
    H: 4″  W:  9.5″  D: 4.5 ” | FREE SHIPPING!

    This charming fanciful vintage underglaze blue and white porcelain pillow has added hand-painted green and red florals, fruits and vases in relief within framed geometric borders of blue cobalt oxide pigment. The top curves in the center to cradle the neck for comfort and flares outward. The front and back sides have charming painted relief images of vases on the front and fruit on the back. The top and bottom have seals applied to Chinese antiques indicating they were approved for export. There is a slight chip on the front, otherwise it is in excellent condition.

     

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    Antique Porcelain Cat Teapot, China (16944B-TLE) $145

    Original price was: $145.00.Current price is: $123.25.

    This charming antique white glazed porcelain figurine is a cat teapot with a raised paw with removable head for pouring liquid into the vessel and long sinuous tail as a handle to pour liquid from the opening at the end of the paw. The hand painted design is whimsical and colorful with a thin ribbon-like blue collar and a dangling ornamental bow with black accents defining the face, ears, head and paws.

     

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    Antique Porcelain Ewer Quatrefoil Panels, China (18036QAS) $235

    Original price was: $235.00.Current price is: $199.75.
    H: 4.875″ W: 4.5″ D: 3.25″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONINENTAL U.S.

    This elegantly shaped and beautiful high-fired antique porcelain ewer was decorated on its outside with a saffron-colored glaze called a coral red glaze. The sides have a white glazed quatrefoil panel with hand-painted multi-colored floral designs on a white background within a gold frame interspersed among sinuous gold leaf vines across the body and neck and a white glaze covers the inside and bottom. Its beauty is enhanced with its graceful spout, colorful white and gold panel beautiful.

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    Antique Porcelain Famille Rose Laughing Buddha, China (17038LMK) $850

    Original price was: $850.00.Current price is: $722.50.
    H: 10.25” W: 9.5” D: 4.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Known as the Laughing, Happy, or Fat Buddha, Budai is regarded as a deity of contentment and plenty. Like most Early Chinese Republic porcelains this piece is hand decorated in famille rose enamels with vivid blue, red, and green pigments portrayed as a stout, smiling, bald monk in robes with a large, exposed pot belly surrounded by five children. Since the stomach is considered the seat of the soul in Chinese beliefs, it demonstrates his open heartedness. His wide smile attracts the children surrounding his body indicating his regard for them and his joy when they encircle him and well as the belief he can bequeath families with children.

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    Antique Porcelain Spouted Jar with Lugs, China (1106WHE) $135

    Original price was: $135.00.Current price is: $114.75.
    H: 5”  W: 5.25”  D: 4.5” | FREE SHIPPING!

    Utilitarian ceramics like this were used in home kitchens and restaurants to hold oil, sauces, soy or other liquids. This spouted blue and white porcelain jar has four loops, also called lugs, so a natural fiber such as rattan could be threaded to either secure a top create a way to hang it to a peg. Sealing the top was very useful if the jars contained liquid and needed to be transported. The piece is decorated in a free and expressive manner with a charming impression of a country scene of a building in a landscape surrounded by tall trees. The cobalt is thick and dark in some areas of the foliage and applied with a thin, sparing and light brush elsewhere.

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    Antique Red Porcelain Bowl w/ High Foot, China (18043WAR) $125

    Original price was: $125.00.Current price is: $106.25.
    H: 2.5”  Dia: 5.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This simple, elegant beautifully shaped footed porcelain bowl is thinly crafted with a monotone coral saffron glaze on the outside and a grayish-white glaze on the inside. It has a rather high and deep foot and the bottom has a fading red stamped seal of an unknown kiln. It is in excellent condition and some minor pitting inside the bowl caused by gases escaping from the clay body during the firing cycle. Likely from the Togzhi Period 1862-1874.

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    Antique/Vintage Porcelain Cat Teapot, Chinese Republic (16944A-WLE) $135

    Original price was: $135.00.Current price is: $114.75.
    H: 5.5″ W: 3″ D: 3.375″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This charming white porcelain cat teapot has a removable head, a long sinuous tail  handle, and an opening at the end of its paw to serve tea. The hand painted design is whimsical and colorful featuring a thin ribbon-like gold collar and dangling ornamental bow and black accents and pink strokes that define the face, eyes, ears, head and paws.

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    Antique/Vintage Porcelain Cat Teapot, Chinese Republic (17022B-ZLK) $135

    Original price was: $135.00.Current price is: $114.75.
    H: 7” W: 6.5” D: 3.625” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This glazed white porcelain cat teapot with a raised paw, like most vessels in this genre, has a removable head, a long sinuous tail handle and a raised paw as a spout. The hand painted whimsical and colorful design includes a thin ribbon-like blue collar and an impressive dangling ornamental bow with black accents that define the face, ears, head and paws.
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    Antique/Vintage Porcelain Immortal Lu Dongbin, Chinese Republic (17035WRK) $295

    Original price was: $295.00.Current price is: $250.75.
    Ht: 10”  W: 3.25”  D: 3.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This polychrome vintage Chinese Republic porcelain figurine represents the most famous and colorful of the Taoist Eight Immortals, Lu Dongbin. He holds his fly whisk at his cheek, a traditional symbol of one who can fly at will. His face has a sweet benign smile with a long beard extending to his waist. He stands on a base with green and black swirling cloud forms indicating his ability to fly. He wears the robes of a Taoist sage in richly painted colors. The figure is in excellent condition and dates to the Chinese Republic Period circa 1920-1940.

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