A FINE YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE BLOSSOM PORCELAIN BOWL, China, underglaze blue Daoguang seal mark and period - Property from an old German private collection - A closely related example is illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 338; one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is published in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 163; another from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is included in sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, pl. 238-39; and a fourth bowl was sold at Sotheby's London, 1st April 1974, lot 356, and again, from the British Rail Pension Fund, 16th May 1989, lot 84 , compare a bowl with a Kangxi yuzhi mark in blue enamel, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum. Fine Enamelled Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty. K'anghsi Period, Hong Kong, 1967, pl. 2 - Provenance: From a North German private collection, since 1982 in the possession of the present owner's family - Minor wear, few hairlines to bottom cleaned