Pair of Hand-Painted Blue & White Porcelain Vases

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These two vases aren't decorated with the same motif, worth noting upfront so a buyer isn't expecting mirror images. Both … Read more These two vases aren't decorated with the same motif, worth noting upfront so a buyer isn't expecting mirror images. Both share the same round form, the same brown-glazed pinched mouth, and the same blue-and-white palette on a white ground, but one carries a raised, molded floral medallion accented with small rust-orange touches at the centers, a mixed technique combining underglaze blue painting with a textured relief surface, while the other is decorated with a looser, freehand blue spray suggesting a bird in flight trailing through a vine.

Displayed together, they read less as an identical matched set and more as two variations on a shared theme, similar palette and scale, different hand and technique, the kind of pairing that works well precisely because it isn't perfectly uniform. Either one also holds up fine as a standalone piece if a buyer only wants one.


These two vases aren't decorated with the same motif, worth noting upfront so a buyer isn't expecting mirror images. Both share the same round form, the same brown-glazed pinched mouth, and the same blue-and-white palette on a white ground, but one carries a raised, molded floral medallion accented with small rust-orange touches at the centers, a mixed technique combining underglaze blue painting with a textured relief surface, while the other is decorated with a looser, freehand blue spray suggesting a bird in flight trailing through a vine.

Displayed together, they read less as an identical matched set and more as two variations on a shared theme, similar palette and scale, different hand and technique, the kind of pairing that works well precisely because it isn't perfectly uniform. Either one also holds up fine as a standalone piece if a buyer only wants one.

*Era: Vintage,
*Origin: China, hand-painted decorative ceramic tradition
*Material: Ceramic with underglaze blue decoration; one vase has an additional raised/molded floral relief with rust-orange accent color
*Size: 4.5"(Diameter) x 4.5"(H) each, sold as a pair (complementary rather than identical motifs, see description)
*Color: White ground with underglaze blue decoration on both; one vase adds a molded floral medallion with rust-orange accents; brown-glazed pinched mouth on each
*Condition: Wear consistent with age & use, blemishes and imperfections will be present.

A pair of Chinese blue-and-white ceramic vases sharing the same form and palette but decorated with two different motifs, one with a molded floral relief and rust-orange accents, the other with a freehand blue bird-and-vine spray.

Where does a pair like this work best? Grouped together on a shelf or console rather than mirrored on either end of a symmetrical arrangement, since the differing motifs read better as a loose grouping than as a strict matched set.

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