The antique Chinese mallet vase, also known as a "bottle vase" or "meiping," has a long and rich history dating back to the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD). The mallet vase was originally used to hold wine, and its shape was based on the mallet used to pound rice into wine. During the Tang dynasty, these vases were made in a variety of materials, including porcelain, bronze, and earthenware.

In the Song dynasty (960-1279 AD), the mallet vase became a popular form for ceramic artists, who decorated them with a wide range of designs, including landscapes, figures, and floral motifs. During the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 AD), the mallet vase reached the peak of its popularity, and it became one of the most highly prized and collectible forms of Chinese ceramics.

Ming dynasty mallet vases were typically made of porcelain and decorated with intricate designs using cobalt blue underglaze more...

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An antique Chinese export polychrome-decorated bottle vase,…

Chinese Polychrome Bottle Vase, Late 19th/Early 20th Century

An antique Chinese export polychrome-decorated bottle vase, late 19th/early 20th century, the compressed body decorated with a continuous scene of figures and in a garden, the neck and shoulder with flowering foliage, butterflies, bats, and auspicious…

A Chinese crackle glaze celadon bottle vase, the white celadon…

Crackle Glaze Celadon Bottle Vase with Swollen Lip

A Chinese crackle glaze celadon bottle vase, the white celadon with black and gold crackle, mildly swollen lip to the top rim, circular foot. Height 13 cm.

A Chinese porcelain blue and white bottle vase, decorated with…

Blue and White Chinese Porcelain Vase with Peach Trees

A Chinese porcelain blue and white bottle vase, decorated with peach trees, six-character mark to base, height 22 cm.

Four Chinese porcelain items, 20th century Comprising a pair of…

Chinese Porcelain Set with Blue and White Lotus Design

Four Chinese porcelain items, 20th century Comprising a pair of underglaze blue and white bowls, flared form with lotus decoration and insects, bearing Qianlong six-character seal marks to the underside, a small double gourd bottle vase, and a wine cup…

An underglaze blue porcelain bottle vase, Tianqiuping, with a…

Tianqiuping Porcelain Bottle Vase with Qianlong Seal Mark

An underglaze blue porcelain bottle vase, Tianqiuping, with a Qianlong seal mark, a garland on ruyi-head on the shoulder, with plantain leaves rising to the slightly flaring mouth, the bulbous body with bands of auspicious motifs, the use of heaping and…

A Chinese blue and white bottle vase, people's Republic of…

Chinese Blue and White Lotus Bottle Vase

A Chinese blue and white bottle vase, people's Republic of China era, the carinate shaped bottle vase profusely decorated with underglaze lotus blooms and foliage to the collar and lower section between wave like borders, the neck with floral and ruyi…

Chinese red and green mottled glazed bottle vase, 21 cm high

Red and Green Glazed Chinese Bottle Vase

Chinese red and green mottled glazed bottle vase, 21 cm high

A famille rose porcelain floor vase, 20th century, the bottle…

Famille Rose Peach Blossom Floor Vase

A famille rose porcelain floor vase, 20th century, the bottle vase well decorated throughout with blossoming and fruiting peach branches, and scattered with auspicious bats, bearing an underglaze apocryphal Qianlong seal underside, height 54 cm

Chinese antique blue glaze bottle vase height 26 cm approx.

Antique Chinese Blue Glaze Bottle Vase (26cm)

Chinese antique blue glaze bottle vase height 26 cm approx.

Old Chinese blue glaze bottle vase 16.5 cm high

Antique Chinese Blue Glaze Vase - 16.5cm

Old Chinese blue glaze bottle vase 16.5 cm high

A Chinese blue and white bottle vase, Qing Dynasty, probably…

Qing Dynasty Blue and White Dragon Vase

A Chinese blue and white bottle vase, Qing Dynasty, probably late 18th to early 19th century, the vase of typical form with a long slender neck, decorated to the body with freely executed dragons chasing a pearl, flame clouds to the collar and neck and…

Chinese porcelain bottle vase, of baluster form with incised…

Incised Floral Chinese Porcelain Vase, 24cm, Yeung Estate

Chinese porcelain bottle vase, of baluster form with incised floral motifs, on circular foot, with incised seal mark to base, a/f, height 24 cm. Provenance: The Yeung Estate

A Chinese porcelain Crushed Strawberry-red glazed bottle vase,…

Mastercrafted Strawberry-Red Chinese Porcelain Vase

A Chinese porcelain Crushed Strawberry-red glazed bottle vase, with bulbous body, 20th century, extremely well potted, and the monochrome glaze controlled, made in Jingdezhen by a master potter, height 42 cm

A Chinese sang de boeuf bottle vase, of typical bottle vase…

Raspberry and Maroon Chinese Bottle Vase

A Chinese sang de boeuf bottle vase, of typical bottle vase form with a cream glazed rim and modulating tones of raspberry to maroon, lighter and mottled towards the base. Height 23 cm

Unusual 19th century Chinese figural bottle vase, unglazed, the…

19th Century Chinese Figural Bottle Vase

Unusual 19th century Chinese figural bottle vase, unglazed, the moustachioed figure with arms crossed, 27 cm high

Chinese Qing dynasty polychrome bottle vase 19th century, with…

Qing Dynasty Polychrome Bottle Vase with Immortals Relief

Chinese Qing dynasty polychrome bottle vase 19th century, with pierced body & eighteen immortals in relief, character marks to base, 25.5 cm high including stand

Antique 19th century Chinese famille rose bottle vase, 19 cm…

19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Bottle Vase

Antique 19th century Chinese famille rose bottle vase, 19 cm high

A fine Chinese porcelain bottle vase, with an elaborate…

Chinese Porcelain Vase with Zhong Kui Depiction

A fine Chinese porcelain bottle vase, with an elaborate Depiction of Zhong Kui, Qianlong seal mark to base, a popular figure from Chinese mythology regarded as a vanquisher of ghosts & evil beings, assisted by du Ping, his trusted friend, a flying bat…

Chinese pale green celadon glazed bottle vase, with applied…

Green Celadon Vase with Peach and Leaves

Chinese pale green celadon glazed bottle vase, with applied peach and leaves to the sides, with splash decoration possible early Longquan kiln. 38 cm high

Chinese peach blossom glazed bottle vase, 23.5 cm high, chip to…

Chinese Peach Blossom Glazed Vase with Double Blue Circles

Chinese peach blossom glazed bottle vase, 23.5 cm high, chip to base, double blue circle marks to base

Two Chinese pottery vases, each with moulded decoration…

Chinese Pottery Vases and Gilt Bottle Vase Set

Two Chinese pottery vases, each with moulded decoration together with a Chinese with gilt highlights and bottle vase. 29 cm high.

A Chinese blue glazed stem cup and vase, in deep cobalt, the…

Chinese Blue Glazed Stem Cup and Vase with Ming Marks

A Chinese blue glazed stem cup and vase, in deep cobalt, the stem cup with a chalice style cup glazed to the interior and exterior, the bottle vase similarly glazed; both with underglaze Ming marks underside, the cup bearing Hongzhi marks, the other with…

A large Chinese celadon bottle vase, the body having a lightly…

Celadon Dragon Vase with Rosewood Stand

A large Chinese celadon bottle vase, the body having a lightly incised design throughout and three shaped reserves enclosing images of writhing dragons in low relief, with scroll and elongated leaf patterns to the neck and a ruyi border to the flared rim;…

A bottle vase and a Dehua type figure, 20th century, an…

Oriental Vase and Dehua Figure

A bottle vase and a Dehua type figure, 20th century, an oriental style bottle vase in cream with sparse red and green floral, decoration, and a blanc-de-chine standing figure, height 26.5 cm, and 18 cm

A Chinese famille verte crackleware bottle vase, Qing Dynasty,…

Famille Verte Crackled Chinese Vase, Qing Dynasty

A Chinese famille verte crackleware bottle vase, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century, a long necked globular vase with female figures and a small child attendant engaged in a narrative in a rockwork garden landscape, with chevron borders to the rim and…

A Chinese olive green bottle vase, of pear shaped form with a…

Chinese Olive Green Glazed Bottle Vase

A Chinese olive green bottle vase, of pear shaped form with a long slender neck and raised upon a small circular foot, having a fine satin glaze; underglaze double blue rings underside. Height 19 cm

A Chinese blue glazed bottle vase and a large celadon glaze…

Chinese Blue and Celadon Vases

A Chinese blue glazed bottle vase and a large celadon glaze covered jar the vase 32 cm high, the covered jar 25 cm high

A large Chinese bottle vase, 20th century, 50 cm high

Chinese 20th Century Large Bottle Vase - 50cm High

A large Chinese bottle vase, 20th century, 50 cm high

Chinese porcelain Doucai bottle vase with phoenix scene, seal…

Chinese Doucai Phoenix Vase

Chinese porcelain Doucai bottle vase with phoenix scene, seal mark to base, 31 cm high

Chinese purple glaze bottle vase 39 cm high approx.

Chinese Purple Glaze Vase - 39cm

Chinese purple glaze bottle vase 39 cm high approx.

Chinese white and red mallet vase, approx 19 cm high

Chinese White and Red Mallet Vase - 19 cm

Chinese white and red mallet vase, approx 19 cm high

A Chinese blue and white bottle vase, probably Qing Dynasty but…

Chinese Blue & White Bird Vase, Qing/Ming Style

A Chinese blue and white bottle vase, probably Qing Dynasty but in the late Ming manner, the bottle vase raised on a rimmed foot and having a compressed onion top rim, decorated to the body with a continuous scene of ducks and birds in a water landscape…

Chinese porcelain bottle vase, decorated with citron,…

Chinese Porcelain Bottle Vase with Fruit Decoration

Chinese porcelain bottle vase, decorated with citron, pomegranate and peaches, in tones of yellow, puce and green, six character mark to base, height 38 cm

A Chinese red blue and white porcelain bottle vase, in…

Phoenix and Peonies Porcelain Vase

A Chinese red blue and white porcelain bottle vase, in underglaze colours depicting two phoenix in a peony garden, drilled to base, height 29.5 cm

A Chinese porcelain bottle vase, the yellow ground with cherry…

Cherry Blossom Porcelain Vase

A Chinese porcelain bottle vase, the yellow ground with cherry blossoms & black & white birds. Height 24 cm

Chinese enamelled famille rose bottle vase with six character…

Famille Rose Vase with Yongzheng Mark

Chinese enamelled famille rose bottle vase with six character Yongzheng mark to base,25.5 cm high

A Chinese blue and white 'Figural' bottle vase (Da Qing Kangxi…

Chinese Kangxi Marked Blue & White Figural Vase

A Chinese blue and white 'Figural' bottle vase (Da Qing Kangxi Nian Zhi mark), height 15.5 cm, diameter 9 cm

Very large Chinese blue and white bottle vase, painted with a…

Chinese Dragon and Lotus Blue and White Vase

Very large Chinese blue and white bottle vase, painted with a scrolling dragon amongst stylised lotus scrolls. Height 42 cm

Chinese blue and white porcelain bottle vase with dragon motif,…

Dragon Motif Blue and White Porcelain Vase

Chinese blue and white porcelain bottle vase with dragon motif, 29.5 cm high, seal mark to base

Chinese iron red decorated bottle vase with repeating dragon…

Dragon Scene Iron Red Bottle Vase with Mark

Chinese iron red decorated bottle vase with repeating dragon scene, four character mark to base

Chinese porcelain bottle vase, 14.5 cm high

Small Chinese Porcelain Bottle Vase

Chinese porcelain bottle vase, 14.5 cm high

A Chinese celadon bottle vase with a hardwood stand, a pierced…

Celadon Vase with Floral Designs and Stand

A Chinese celadon bottle vase with a hardwood stand, a pierced celadon bottle vase with a pleasing satin glaze, having a slender neck terminating in a bulbous top, with a frieze of incised floral designs; underglaze seal mark underside and upon a low…

A Chinese Jun ware-style bottle vase, of ovoid form with a long…

Chinese Jun Ware-Style Bottle Vase

A Chinese Jun ware-style bottle vase, of ovoid form with a long slender neck, and glazed in the typical Jun ware, manner of red suffused with white, and raised on a small circular foot. Height 32.5 cm.

Early Chinese/ Anamese bottle vase, with cylindrical neck and…

Olive Celadon Bottle Vase with Cylindrical Neck

Early Chinese/ Anamese bottle vase, with cylindrical neck and ovoid body, in a olive celadon glaze, a/f, height 18 cm

Large Chinese purple glazed bottle vase 38 cm high.

Chinese Purple Glazed Vase - 38cm

Large Chinese purple glazed bottle vase 38 cm high.

Vintage Chinese sang de boeuf bottle vase height5 20 cm

Vintage Chinese Sang de Boeuf Bottle Vase

Vintage Chinese sang de boeuf bottle vase height5 20 cm

Two glazed vases, a red underglazed youlihong pot vase with…

Glazed Vases with Dragon and Phoenix Motifs

Two glazed vases, a red underglazed youlihong pot vase with applied chilongs to the shoulder, and depicting a dragon between borders, and a yellow ground glazed bottle, vase with applied handles and decorated with phoenix and vegetal forms in green and…

Chinese blue and white bottle vase in the kangxi style, seal…

Chinese Kangxi-style Blue and White Vase, Seal Mark, 37cm

Chinese blue and white bottle vase in the kangxi style, seal mark to base, 37 cm high

Chinese famille rose bottle vase, circa 1900. Height 34 cm

1900 Chinese Famille Rose Bottle Vase (34 cm)

Chinese famille rose bottle vase, circa 1900. Height 34 cm