Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Recently Added This very fine antique mosque

This very fine antique mosque lamp

to name just a few

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

From an important collection of Islamic art Kuwait

A very stylish antique French Art Deco clock cold-painted figural bronze & marble three piece garniture

Antique Blue & White Chinese Qing Dynasty Porcelain Stem Cup Bowl Xuande Mark Circa 1890 Recently Added This very fine antique mosqueA 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