Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Recently Added hallmarked to the base and

hallmarked to the base and the top

" The dispenser fitted with a brass spigot and standing on a flared circular foot

China in 1909

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Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Recently Added hallmarked to the base andA 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