Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Mid-Century Modern Illustrated in:1

Illustrated in:1

Carli Frères in the L'Olivierstraat in Schaerbeek

29 cm X 28 cm (cock face: 14

The tripod base also having floral enamel decorations and hard stone inset cabuchons

Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Mid-Century Modern Illustrated in:1A fine antique late 19th century Chinese Qing dynasty blue & white porcelain stem cup bowl, circa 1890. The stem cup with an apocryphal tributory six character Ming dynasty Xuande mark within concentric circles to the inside of the bowl. It was common for later Chinese dynasties to mark porcelain with much earlier marks, not as copies or fakes but as a mark of honorific respect to earlier periods. The large gently flared bowl with concentric blue