Caring for Chinese Porcelain

Legend Accents Playing Foo Dogs Temple Jar

There is Chinese porcelain that has lasted for hundreds and even thousands of years. Caring for your collection of Chinese porcelain - ginger jars, vases, garden stools, and such, unless they are museum quality antiques behind glass, need only involve a few easy steps.

The Chinoiserie Palette

House of Old and New

This is such a lovely example of how a chinoiserie vignette with Chinese porcelain need not be limited to a color palette of blue and white. Here a coral jar and a foo dog in green work beautifully with the classic blue and white Chinese porcelain pieces. My home has lots of coral, green, and blue and white, so this would work beautifully at CCC.

The Scent of Famille Rose

Famille Rose Scented Candle

Of course "famille rose" does not have a scent - it is a type of Chinese porcelain introduced in the 18th century and very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. The term famille rose (meaning of the “pink family”) refers to porcelain glazed with enamels in a predominantly pink, white, yellow, and green color palette.

Coral Chinoiserie

Coral Chinese Porcelain

Chinese porcelain in tones of coral, orange, and Chinese red are a gorgeous alternative to blue and white Chinese porcelain. I love this look for a beach house or summer house and it's so pretty paired with conch shells with their beautiful soft coral interiors. It looks stunning mixed with blue and white Chinese porcelain.

The Chinoiserie Entryway

James Farmer

This beautiful entryway features Schumacher's Hydrangea Drape wallpaper.

The Chinoiserie Coffee Table

Pinterest

A stunning bamboo coffee table is styled with Chinese porcelain, coffee table books, and shells for a Coastal Chinoiserie vibe.

Green & Chinoiserie

2017  Southern Style Now Showhouse - Traditional Home

A pretty alternative to blue and white Chinese porcelain - green and white Chinese porcelain with foo dogs and a pop of orange.

The Chinoiserie Kitchen

Randi Garrett Design

A white kitchen with white Chinese porcelain and a pair of Chinese lanterns.

The Chinoiserie Living Room

One Kings Lane

Chinese porcelain, a Chinese ginger jar lamp, and a framed Chinoiserie panel accessorize this lovely living room.

Orange

Orange continues as a hot trend this fall. Could it get any better than the ceiling and fretwork walls lacquered in Hermes orange with a display of Chinoiserie porcelain vases?

Chinese Porecelain

From the Porcelain Cabinet at Charlottenburg Palace

Spring and Chinoiserie

Mary McDonald

This week we will welcome spring with a new series on spring cleaning Chinoiserie Chic style - spring colors, Chinoiserie outdoors, and brightening and lightening your home for the warm weather with Chinoiserie. Tip #1 - please use Mary McDonald's example and bring some of your blue and white Chinese porcelain outdoors. I have garden stools and ginger jars that I have had in the garden for twenty years all year round in the Washington, DC area.

Chinoiserie Inspiration

Greystone Show House Gala

Saturday Inspiration

The wallpaper is Thibaut Sheffield from the Sweet Life Collection in the orange colorway. I just love the combination of orange and blue.

More Sunday Inspiration

A stunning living room by Alex Papachristidis with lots of Chinoiserie elements including a gilt faux bamboo cocktail table, a pair of pagoda sconces, a pair of Chinoiserie lamps, a red lacquer side table, and Chinoiserie accessories including an elephant, a Buddha head, pagodas, and Chinese porcelain.

From My Chinoiserie Home-Setting the Chinoiserie Breakfast Table

I have set the breakfast bar with vintage Mottahedeh china, vintage foo dogs, vintage blanc de Chine, and vintage blue and white Chinese porcelain from my collection, a white topiary pagoda from HomeGoods, a piece of art from Annechovie, bamboo flatware, and blue and white Chinoiserie placemats "Lightfoot House" from the Williamsburg Collection.

Blue and White Checks

I like this rather unusual combination of a framed Chinoiserie mural and a collection of blue and white Chinese porcelain with the unexpected choice of the more casual oversized blue and white checked slipcovered chairs.

William Eubanks

This classic dining room by William Eubanks has it all-pagodas, blue and white Chinese porcelain, and blanc de Chine.

The Blue and White Sideboard

Carolyne Roehm

My Chinoiserie Home

Ginger Jars Attend a Fourth of July Pool Party

After marching in the Fourth of July parade, the ginger jars attended a lovely Fourth of July pool party. Guests included other blue and white Chinese porcelain.

Pool house by Marshall Erb for the Lake Forest, Illinois Showhouse. Porcelain by Pagoda Red.