Blue & White Peony Ancestor Jar

Sale price
$173.00
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SKU:
1607-2
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The Blue & White Peony Ancestor Jar brings a richly detailed botanical focal point to a shelf, console, or tabletop. Its rounded silhouette is topped with a low-profile lid, while deep blue peony blossoms, birds, foliage, and garden-rock imagery stand out against a crisp white ground. Layered borders around the shoulder and lid add definition without distracting from the scenic design. Measuring 9 inches high, 9 inches wide, and 9 inches deep, this compact decorative jar is well suited to a living room bookcase, an entryway console, or a dining room sideboard. Display it on its own as a concentrated note of blue and white, or incorporate it into a collected arrangement with books, trays, and other decorative objects. The balanced proportions and classic palette coordinate naturally with traditional, transitional, and blue-and-white interiors.

Width:
9.00 in
Height:
9.00 in
Depth:
9.00 in
primary color:
Blue
secondary colors:
White
pattern motif:
Peonies, birds, foliage, and garden rocks
shape:
Rounded lidded jar
visual style:
Blue-and-white, Botanical, Traditional, Chinoiserie-inspired
recommended rooms:
Living room, Entryway, Dining room, Home office
recommended placements:
Bookcase, Console table, Sideboard, Tabletop, Display cabinet
Illustrative scene of hands shaping a clay vessel on a pottery wheel; not a photograph of a Legend of Asia workshop

Illustrative craft scene Form / Brushwork / Glaze

Behind the form

It begins in the hands.

Before a piece is painted, its shape gives it character: the shoulder of a jar, the edge of a planter, the balance of a vase. The porcelain traditions behind our collection bring together forming, hand-painted detail, glazing, and firing.

A closer look

Notice how the painted line follows the form, and how the glaze catches the light.

Blue-and-white porcelain-base lamp illuminating a contemporary living room

Porcelain, seen in a new light.

At home with porcelain

A place for the details to live.

We like porcelain best when it feels part of everyday life, not set apart from it. A lamp can warm a reading corner; a jar can hold its own on a console. Blue-and-white pattern feels especially at ease beside wood, linen, and a little open space.

A room note

Give a favorite piece some breathing room, then let its color echo somewhere else nearby.