Jingdezhen Qianlong-Style Famille Rose Yutang Fugui Tianqiu Vase

Yutang Fugui is one of Qing porcelain's most graceful botanical rebuses. Magnolia contributes yu, crabapple tang, and peony the idea of wealth and honor, bringing the flowers together as a wish that refinement and prosperity may flourish within the household.

The composition has a documented Qing porcelain lineage. Christie's records a 42.5 cm Yongzheng/Qianlong famille rose vase in which magnolia and peony form the same Yutang Fugui wish. This 40 cm Jingdezhen Tianqiu carries that court-period language into a broader celestial-sphere silhouette, with crabapple completing the rebus and open white porcelain giving each branch room to turn.

Its appeal is not symbolic meaning alone. The rounded body allows the hand-finished floral scene to unfold without a fixed front, making the vase equally convincing as a wedding or new-home gift and as a central display object in its own right.

• Origin: Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China
• Material: Porcelain made from porcelain stone and kaolin
• Decoration: Hand-finished famille rose enamels
• Motif: Magnolia, crabapple, peony, and flowering branches
• Form: Tianqiu vase
• Dimensions: 40 cm H x 26 cm body diameter / 15.7 in H x 10.2 in body diameter
• Base diameter: 12 cm / 4.7 in
• Rim: Gold-toned decoration
• Mark: Decorative Qianlong-style reign mark
• Date: Contemporary