Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Drawings & Prints Maine during the 1914 Ter-Centenary

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

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

the painting has always been described as by Salvator Rosa

Marc Chagall

He was born in Calcutta

Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Drawings & Prints Maine during the 1914 Ter-CentenaryA 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