Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Drawings & Prints The circular tazza with a

The circular tazza with a shallow bowl with scrolled baroque repousse decoration and bordered with a band of beaded design

Maine during the 1914 Ter-Centenary celebration of the Voyage of Captain John Smith

the paining is signed by the artist and dated 1926 lower right

He was born in Calcutta

Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Drawings & Prints The circular tazza with aA 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