Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Mid-Century Modern 29 cm X 28 cm

29 cm X 28 cm (cock face: 14

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

Carli Frères in the L'Olivierstraat in Schaerbeek

the statues are approximately 3/4 lifesize

Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Mid-Century Modern 29 cm X 28 cmA 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