Name: Chinese Blue &amp; White Ginger Jar 1880 - 1910
SKU: 134025
Price: 35.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Chinese Blue & White Ginger Jar 1880 – 1910

£35.00

A particularly lovely late Qing Chinese porcelain ginger jar, hand decorated with flowering prunus branches reserved in white against a wonderfully rich cobalt-blue ground.

The jar retains a matching domed cover decorated with further blossom and bears the characteristic double concentric blue-ring mark to its recessed base.

Dating from around the turn of the 20th century, the jar has lovely variation within the hand-painted cobalt decoration and attractive age-related wear to the foot.

A beautiful standalone piece and an especially good addition to a collection of antique blue-and-white porcelain.

China, possibly late Qing dynasty, c.1880–1910.

Only 1 left in stock

SKU: 134025 Categories: Homewares, Vintage

Description

Antique Late Qing Chinese Blue & White Porcelain Prunus Ginger Jar with Cover, c.1880–1910

A beautiful antique Chinese porcelain ginger jar dating from the late Qing dynasty, probably around the closing decades of the 19th century or very beginning of the 20th.

Of traditional rounded form, the jar is hand decorated in rich underglaze cobalt blue with flowering prunus branches reserved against the darker ground. The loose variation of the cobalt and freely drawn branches give the piece considerably more character than later mechanically decorated examples.

The jar is accompanied by a matching domed porcelain cover decorated with further blossom. The recessed glazed underside bears a double concentric blue-ring mark, a marking convention derived from earlier Kangxi-period porcelain and subsequently used extensively on Chinese blue-and-white wares during the 19th century.

The unglazed foot shows attractive age-related wear and discolouration consistent with an antique piece.

A wonderfully decorative example of antique Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, equally at home amongst a traditional collection of Asian ceramics or used as a single statement piece on a mantel, console or bookshelf.