Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Recently Added the scene is both charming

the scene is both charming and humorous

From an important collection of Islamic art Kuwait

The painting is housed in the original ebonized frame with gilded Fleur de Lis decoration

The garniture comprising three pieces

The carved back with a crest of twin cornucopia and a carved Fleur-de-Lis

Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Recently Added the scene is both charmingA 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