Painted in brilliantly hued enamels with a lion, tiger, wolf and kilim prowling through flowers, pine, and rock garden against a turquoise ground, the curving interior well covered with same turquoise enamel that also fills the recessed base bearing the six-character mark in iron red seal script. In good conditions, minor wears on the central surface and minor crackles on turquoise enamels and on the rim 1 cm enamel flake on the edge and in correspondence at the exterior a 1 cm pouring turquoise enamel on tree decoration, probably due to the firing process.17, 5 cm diam., 10 cm highA TURQUOISE GROUND FAMILLE ROSE BOWL, CHINA, QING DYNASTY,19TH CENTURY, JAIQING APOCRYPHAL SEAL MARKProvenance: from the private collection of an important Italian ambassador and thence by descent