The Straits Chinese prized a number of different types of nineteenth- and twentieth-century export porcelain, including several types of blue and white wares specially made for them and used nowhere outside their community as well as wares that were not exclusive to Peranakan homes, such as "Kitchen Qing". However, polychrome Nyonya wares of the famille rose type which were specially commissioned for home use by the Peranakan or Straits Chinese during the twilight years of the Qing Dynasty.
The wares are either remnants of what were originally complete dinner or tea services or articles used in wedding ceremonies and as gifts to the bride, and for other special occasions and religious offerings. They vary considerably in the amount of enamelling on their surfaces the more common constituting white ground wares, the more special being fully enamelled wares or individualistic special order wares.
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