• Vintage Chinese blue and white porcelain cylindrical vase featuring a painted mountain landscape scene styled on a wooden scholar desk with calligraphic brushes, inkstone, and hanging scroll.
  • A full front view of a cylindrical 19th-century Chinese blue and white porcelain hat stand against a black background. The underglaze cobalt blue painting highlights sweeping, triangular mountain peaks rising behind a cluster of leafy pine trees and a small traditional house. Intricate cross-hatch patterned geometric borders wrap around the top and lower base.
  • A 19th-century Chinese blue and white porcelain cylindrical hat stand photographed against a white background. The hand-painted cobalt blue decoration depicts a traditional Shan Shui mountain landscape. A figure walks across a stone bridge spanning a river, leading toward a multi-story pavilion nestled in stylized hills and pine trees. Decorative cross-hatch and floral ruyi diaper bands border the top and bottom rims.
  • The reverse side of a cylindrical 19th-century Chinese blue and white porcelain vase against a black background. The painting features an open, minimalist composition depicting a lone fisherman steering a small boat on a tranquil river, flanked by sharp mountain crags. A flock of distant birds flies across the white porcelain sky.
  • Vintage Chinese porcelain cylindrical vase styled on a mid century credenza next to an antique wooden chest and framed Japanese prints in a luxury study overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
  • A front view of a cylindrical 19th-century Chinese blue and white porcelain hat stand against a black background. The underglaze cobalt blue painting highlights mountain peaks rising behind a cluster of leafy pine trees and a small traditional house. Intricate cross-hatch patterned geometric borders wrap around the top and lower base.
  • A 19th-century Chinese blue and white porcelain cylindrical hat stand against a solid black background. The hand-painted cobalt blue decoration depicts a traditional Shan Shui mountain landscape. A figure walks across a stone bridge spanning a river, leading toward a multi-story pavilion nestled in stylized hills and pine trees. Decorative cross-hatch and floral ruyi diaper bands border the top and bottom rims.
  • The reverse side of a cylindrical 19th-century Chinese blue and white porcelain vase against a black background. The painting features an open, minimalist composition depicting a lone fisherman steering a small boat on a tranquil river, flanked by sharp mountain crags. A flock of distant birds flies across the white porcelain sky.
  • A product reference image of a 19th-century Chinese blue and white porcelain cylindrical hat stand on a black background. Overlay text on the left reads: Height: 11.5 inches (29 cms), Diameter: 5 inches (12.7 cms). The hand-painted scene on the vase displays towering mountain peaks, houses, and trees.
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Antique Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Scholar’s Hat Stand

Antique Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Scholar’s Hat Stand

$2,588.00 CAD
$2,588.00 CAD
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This Chinese blue and white porcelain scholar’s hat stand features a hand-painted shan shui landscape of mountains, water, pavilions, bridges and small figures. Its cylindrical form and vivid blue decoration make it a distinctive piece for a mantel, console or cabinet of Chinese porcelain.

Attributed to the early 19th-century Qing period, this piece combines a continuous landscape scene with decorative borders at the top and base. Lattice patterns and fan-shaped panels with seasonal floral motifs frame the painted scene.

Design & Background

Shan shui, meaning “mountain and water,” is a Chinese landscape tradition that invites quiet contemplation of the natural world. Here, architectural details and small figures draw the eye through the surrounding landscape.

Scholar’s hat stands were traditionally used to hold hats. This example can be displayed on its own to appreciate the landscape painting or alongside other Chinese decorative arts.

Specifications

  • Item: Chinese blue and white porcelain scholar’s hat stand
  • Decoration: Hand-painted landscape with architectural details, figures and floral border panels
  • Height: Approximately 11.5 inches / 29 cm
  • Diameter: Approximately 5 inches / 12.7 cm
  • Material: Porcelain
  • Origin: China
  • Period attribution: Qing dynasty, circa early 19th century

Condition

Excellent condition with no issues. These porcelain piece have been kept in storage for over 50 years. Kept in a climate-controlled environment and only recently been released on the open market. They are in excellent condition. This entire collection has been in storage since the early Republic period.

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