Antique Chinese Qing Canton Blue & White Export Porcelain Warming Dish 1800 Sculpture signed & dated 1926

signed & dated 1926

the front of the coffer with four deeply carved panels and an engraved brass escutcheon/lock plate above and the carved initials "C M"

For more than a 100 years

and unrefined

Antique Chinese Qing Canton Blue & White Export Porcelain Warming Dish 1800 Sculpture signed & dated 1926Antique underglaze Blue & white Chinese Qing Dynasty Export Porcelain, Hot Water Warming Dish, circa 1810. The rare octagonal form deep hot water warming dish is painted in underglaze blue with a scene of a river, with mountains in the background and in the foreground islands with building, a bridge and a pagoda. The dish having handles at each side, one handle is also a spout allowing hot water to fill the reservoir below, and keep food above warm.