CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE VASE – SPRINGTIME DREAMS 🌸🐉

This baluster porcelain vase, painted in the delicate Famille Rose palette, has me utterly smitten. What first reads as a single “picture” on porcelain unveils a small courtly theatre: elegant ladies, two boys of fortune and a terrace with vases, tea and screens—told in silky enamels—peach-pinks, aqua greens, turquoise and soft orange—outlined in fine black. The scene is auspicious: children (prosperity and lineage), the plum blossom (renewal) and scholar’s objects (good governance of the home). 🍃🍑

On the neck, calligraphy adds poetry and blessing; beneath the rim, a thread of gilding—gently worn in just the right way—speaks of a long, well-lived life. I love the tiny applied bosses, enamelled in coral, animating the shoulders and giving rhythm to the silhouette. It’s a piece that speaks softly yet fills the room: luminous, balanced, with that milky sheen of fine porcelain. ✨

Dating to the late Qing / dawn of the Republic (late 19th–early 20th century), it sits beautifully on its carved wooden base. It’s the sort of object I place in the window with a smile: graceful, symbolic, and unquestionably well made. For homes that ask for a cultivated, happy touch—and for those who love pieces that tell stories with elegance. To view in person, it’s at Batalha Collection, Faro. I’ll be delighted to show it to you. 🙌