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Subject:Help with blue and white porcelain
Posted By: MB Mon, Aug 10, 2020 IP: 2804:14c:36:8d46:cdf
Any help with this group of porcelain vases will be of great help. They are very light and the glaze is smooth. i can post more pictures.

MB







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Subject:Re: Help with blue and white porcelain
Posted By: Bill H Wed, Aug 12, 2020
Your covered jars are in a pattern and form of a type mass-produced and exported from China in great numbers, starting in the early 19th century. The 'Straits Chinese', who lived in Southeast Asia and got their name from their communities along the Straits of Malacca, called them 'Kamcheng' jars and used them mainly for storage, though sometimes for soup-making. Check out the link and you'll find that the other jars have lion dog finials on the lid. Yours have a more recent finial, representing fruit I believe, that I associate with lids for other Chinese-made jars of the late Qing and Republic eras. Here are a couple of tea jars from the later periods with similar finials, and a photo link to an older Kamcheng. The floral tea jar has a late Qing cyclical date of 'Jiawu' or 1894, while the dragon jar has a base-mark of the Double Dragon Tea Company in Shanghai from the Republic Period, judging by its transfer decoration and brassy gilt.

Best regards,

Bill H.








URL Title :Kamcheng Jars


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