A famille-rose bowl seal mark and period of Daoguang

the shallow rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, the exterior vibrantly decorated with stylised lotus blooms, suspending stone chimes, alternating with clusters of peach, finger citron and pomegranate, with interlocking dense scrolling leafy stems and archaistic dragon tendrils, all within ruyi-head and lappet borders, the interior with a central medallion of lotus blooms suspended from peaches and interrupted by swooping bats below a peach and flower scroll at the rim, the foot encircled with a gilt border, the base inscribed with the six-character seal mark in iron-red 

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4th and 5th November 1997, lot 1556.