Hand-Painted Peony Motif Porcelain Vase

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A Lovely petite porcelain vase with full pink peony bloom, rendered in soft layered petals from pale blush to deeper … Read more A Lovely petite porcelain vase with full pink peony bloom, rendered in soft layered petals from pale blush to deeper coral, takes up nearly the whole face of the round body, with a scatter of small blue accents standing in for buds or leaves around it, restrained rather than busy. The same celadon-brown glaze pools at the small flared mouth as its siblings in this small curated group, and the round, gourd-like form repeats across all six, each one built to carry a single hand-painted scene rather than a repeating pattern. The peony has long stood for prosperity and honor in Chinese decorative painting, a flower reserved for pieces meant to make a genuine impression rather than fill space.
On a shelf, it reads as confidently graphic from across a room and still rewards a closer look at the brushwork once someone's near enough to see it.

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