Porcelain large rounded bowl Chinese, 19th Century decorated in famille rose enamels with a hedge of foliage and rocks before which a gathering of seventeen Daoist immortals sit and stand holding various symbols and accompanied by a dragon in clouds and a tiger, the interior with a central medallion depicting two immortals crossing a sea upon a gourd against a background of rocks and reeds, foot with Qianlong Zhuanshu seal mark over painted in red 13cm high x 34cm diameter Provenance: Hazelwood , Shanghai circa 1930 then by descent. (Note Hazelwood is a large classical property in Shanghai designed by Clough Williams-Ellis and is now on the site of the Radisson Xingguo Hotel)