Featured ANOTHER Piece of Peranakan Porcelain

Been collecting antique and vintage Peranakan-Chinese porcelain, or "nyonyaware" for years now, and recently added another piece to the collection.

This is about 2/3 of my collection...



And here's the latest (and quite large!) addition, a big fat green-and-pink pillar vase which I bought on eBay from a seller in Europe. It arrived earlier this week.

 

I have seen this palette for many years but didn't know it was related to any group? Are these pieces marked and if so, can share that mark please.

 

It was also used elsewhere, but hugely popular among the Peranakan, and made in China mostly for export to the Peranakan market.

There were different makers.

 

I've seen it in thrift stores and "antique" malls many times too.

 

Yes, China exported it worldwide.
We had it here too, and I still come across it. Although we have a Peranakan community I remember Euro-Dutch people used to have sets of this type of export ware as well.

 

ha.... me too..... and I pass on it because I don't recognize what it is....and don't collect pottery.

 

A_J is correct. Peranakan "nyonyaware" as it's called, was made in CHINA, for export.

The Peranakan-Chinese of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand & Malaysia) were the main market for this stuff. They loved the bright, garish pastel colours and decorations, and the porcelain was actually extremely cheap back in the 1800s and 1900s - so it was quite affordable for most Peranakan families to have huge collections.

100, 150 years later, and now they've become priceless antiques. The last time I watched an auction, two little bowls sold for something in the region of $3,000.

 

I've found similar ware early and often. Ivariably marked "Not for food use". (i.e. 1990s or later)