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The set of two classic vases features hand-painted cobalt-on-white decoration, produced in Jingdezhen where the technique has been practised across generations. One vase takes a gourd form rooted in Chinese tradition, while the other follows a cylindrical shape associated with the Dutch Golden Age, linking two distinct cultural histories through the same brushwork. The unhurried, hand-applied decoration gives each piece subtle variation, and both vases function with or without flowers.
The mantelpiece that has held the same two things for years, and still looks right. Hand-painted in Jingdezhen — where the cobalt-on-white tradition has been kept by the same families for generations — each of these two vases carries a distinct classic form, linked by the same blue and the same unhurried brushwork. The gourd shape draws from Chinese feng shui; the cylinder from the Dutch Golden Age that borrowed it. Two pieces, one conversation. They work with flowers, or without.
