Imperial Blue and White Porcelain Vase | Interlocking Peony | Meiping

Imitation Yuan dynasty blue-and-white prunus vase with interlocking peony designs, the original of which is in Gao'an Museum, is an important relic of Yuan dynasty blue and white.

Decoration patterns on the blue-and-white porcelain wares of the Yuan dynasty borrowed designs from textiles. The widely used hanging cloud designs and the S-shaped cloud designs were evolved from the shoulder decoration in Chinese traditional opera costumes.

The vase has a small mouth, a short neck, wide shoulders, a slightly downward tapering body. The exterior is covered with blue-and-white glaze, decorated with hanging cloud designs on the shoulder, with seawater and a white lotus flower pattern inlaid within the hanging cloud. The abdomen is decorated with four interlocking Peonies, with lush and graceful branches, full of exuberance and liveliness. The shin is decorated with a circle of lotus patterns, and the lotus petals are filled with deformed flower heads and pendant bead patterns. Between the segments, it is interspersed with scrolling grasses, diamond-shaped patterns, string patterns and double string patterns. The main and secondary decoration of this vase is as many as ten layers, which is extremely rare among the surviving works of Yuan dynasty blue and white.

• Function: Decorative crafts, Tabletop Vase, Perfect Gift.
• Glaze type: Blue-and-white.
• Materials & Techniques: Ceramic, Hand-Painted.
• Packaging: Box
• Place of Origin: Jingdezhen, China, the home to handcrafting royal porcelain for royal families worldwide.

Shipping and Lead Time

All items are handcrafted by folk artists and craftmen. It usually takes about 3 months to finish a product. We kindly suggest that you contact us before you place an order. Each order is carefully inspected and packaged before it leaves our warehouse to avoid damage during transit.

Lead Time: 105 calendar days after order confirmed and payment made.

Custom Order Only

Because of the nature of this category arts, we provide custom orders only.

Embedding Families or Organizations Names:
As porcelain antiques may be inherited for thousands years. We may embed your family or organization names inside or on the bottom as Chinese Royal Families (Emperors) did, to record the honors of your families and organizations and pass to generations and generations.

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These handcrafted masterpieces are not allowed for return, except for quality issues, damage, or wrong items upon the receipt of items.

The returned/exchanged product must be in its original condition, unused and in its original packaging. Special order items cannot be returned.

As soon as you return your item to us and it's received into our system, we will expeditiously send a refund request to your bank. Please note that while the funds are instantly deducted from our account, some banks may take 5-7 business days to process and post these refunds to your account.

Over the centuries, Chinese ceramics have developed a wide variety of shapes, some forms based on earlier jade carvings or bronze castings, which have evolved throughout history. There are about 30 common shapes of Chinese antique vases.

The meiping originated in the Tang dynasty (618-907) as a wine storage vessel often found in tombs. Later the shape was used for decorative vases during the Song dynasty, a high period of innovation in Chinese ceramics with technical mastery and refinement. The name ‘plum vase’ comes from the use of placing plum blossoms in the vase. The body is tall and slender with a short narrow neck, broad rounded shoulders, tapering to a narrow base. They sometimes had lids, which were often lost, and variations include hexagonal meiping vases. The meiping vase can be found in in almost all styles of glaze including celadon, qingbai, blue and white, copper-red, wucai, doucai, and famille-rose.