*Qing Dynasty Indigo Glazed Ceramic Zun (vessel) with Swallows and Gold-painted Design

This porcelain vessel has a open mouth with a slightly out-turned lip, and the short neck leads to a convex bulging belly with a restrained bottom. Carved between the neck and shoulder of the vessel, two delicate white-glazed sea swallows with spreading wings serve as the ceramic’s handles. The external is indigo glazed, decorated with gold painted banana leaves and twining flowers designs on its belly, and its bottom decorated with pink lotus and linked-pearl designs. It required repeated firing and painting processes, which and was a perfect integration of carving, decal and embossing craftsmanship. Indigo symbolizes the clear water and “swallow” (燕) shares a similar pronunciation with “晏” (Yan) in Chinese, so the whole piece implies that the Yellow River is clear and the seas are calm, and the whole world is at peace.

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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Couriers

We use DHL or Fedex by air. The tracking information will be sent to you when your order shipped.

Please inspect your package immediately upon arrival and report any damages/errors within 3 business days.

Customer satisfaction is our top priority. We check each piece of items before deliver to insure quality.

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.