A fine pair of yellow-ground bowls, China, underglaze-blue six-character seal mark Daoguang and of the period. Photo Nagel Auktionen

The exterior of the well potted flared sides is delicately enamelled in 'famille-fose' palette with goats, within three gilt-edged roundels interdespersed with arrangements of Precious Objects in reserve on a lemon-yellow enamel ground, finely incised overall with feathery foliate scrolls. The interior is painted in underglaze-blue with sprays of flowering branches and stems hung with emblems, all radiating from a central medallion enclosing further goats in a landscape - Good condition. D. 14,6 cm. Estimate 30 000/50 000 €

Provenance: Private collection Rhineland bought from Sotheby's London, 12 December 1983, lot 294

A Daoguang bowl of this pattern in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, is illustrated in the Ohlmer Collection Catalogue, no. 143, another is illustrated by Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, vol. I, nos 404-5.

Comparable are also the pair of Jiaqing bowls of the same pattern from the Edward T. Chow Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 594, and the Guangxu example included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, Catalogue no. 121 

Nagel Auktionen. 2013/05/08. http://www.auction.de/