FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN OGEÉ BOWL, China, Qing dynasty, 19th century

Well-painted on the outside with the Nine Buddhist Lions playing with brocade balls, on the inside it is painted with two swallows and two peonies with a medallion formed by two peaches and a bat in iron red in the centre; on the base it bears the four-character seal mark of the Emperor Daoguang.

Provenance Private collection, Italy

Catalogue notes This iconography is auspicious and means 'may nine generations live together in peace.