A Daoguang Period, Chinese, porcelain bowl with steeply curved sides on a narrow foot, painted with circular panels of floral arrangements within a plum colored textured ground further marked by flower heads & foilate scroll, the well with sprays of flowers surrounding a panel of scholars' rocks & lingzhi mushrooms rendered with tones of cobalt on a white ground, the underside with a 6 character square seal. D: 6" (15.4cm) Condition: in excellent condition Provenance: collection of an important Maryland collector