Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Mid-Century Modern and at the Exhibition of

and at the Exhibition of the Society of Amateurs and Connoisseurs in 1893

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

working in a decidedly painterly fashion by brushing compositions onto woodblocks before carving them

mid: 18" diameter

A very fine pair of Italian Grand Tour putti bronze statues on Breccia marble bases

Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Mid-Century Modern and at the Exhibition ofA 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