Porcelain Vases come in many shapes and sizes. Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating clay-type materials to high temperatures. It includes clay in the form of kaolinite.
There is a distinction between hard-paste porcelain, fired at 1400 degrees Celsius, and soft-paste porcelain, fired at 1200 degrees Celsius. Bone china is soft-paste porcelain made from bone ash and kaolinite.
Porcelain originated in China, and ‘china’ is the common name of the product. By the Eastern LV Han Dynasty period (196–220 AD) glazed ceramic wares had developed into porcelain. Porcelain manufactured during the Tang Dynasty (618–906 AD) was exported to the Islamic world, where it was highly prized. Early porcelain of this type includes the tri-colour glazed porcelain, or sancai wares. Porcelain items in the sense that we know them today could be found in the Tang Dynasty, and archaeological finds have pushed the dates back to as early as the LV Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). By the Sui Dynasty (581–618) and Tang Dynasty (618–907), porcelain was widely produced. Reference: Wikipedia
A MEISSEN AUGUSTUS REX FLARED BEAKER VASE, CIRCA 1730
Painted in Kakiemon style in polychrome enamels embellished in gilding with a landscape vignette depicting a stork-like bird flanked by fences with large branches of flowering indianische Blumen issuing from rockwork to its right and a smaller spray of flowers to the left, two birds and a butterfly in flight overhead, the lower body painted with four lappets, each with a chrysanthemum on an iron-red ground reserved with scrolling foliage, triangular green scale-ground panels between them, gilt band above foot rim, 34.6cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue (restoration to top section)
Sold for Sold for £ 22,750 (US$ 27,334) inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2021
A Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Wall Vase
18th Century
Of hemispherical form; decorated to show a butterfly amongst flowers.
Height 3 inches.
Sold for $693 (includes buyer’s premium) at Doyle in 2021
Qing Famille Rose Butterfly Porcelain Vase 8 3/8″H x 5 3/8″ W
Sold for US$550 at Ace Art Auction in 2022
A pair of gilt-bronze mounted porcelain gourd vases, the porcelain China 18th century, the mounts probably 19th century
Decorated with three small vignettes painted with butterflies to bulbous top of neck and with three vignettes to body each depicting landscapes, all on a blue ground
Height 9¼in; High. 24cm
Sold for 3,276 USD at Sotheby’s in 2021
