The bowl is finely potted with deep, rounded sides that rise to a slightly everted rim, and is decorated on the exterior with three flowering branches flanked by lingzhi fungus at their base.

Provenance: Mrs. Joseph Regenstein (1926-2004) Collection, Chicago, before 1970.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1970.  

Note: The very rare hall mark, Cairun Tang zhi (Made for the Hall Enriched with Brilliance), is recorded by Gerald Davison in The New & Revised Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics, Somerset, 2010, p. 104 and p. 266, no. 1263, where it is attributed to the Qianlong period. 

A virtually identical Cairun Tang zhi-marked bowl of approximately the same size (16.5 cm. diam.) is illustrated by John Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. 4, Painted and Polychrome Porcelains of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Geneva, 1974, no. A 585. 

Christie's. Chinese Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, New York, 12 September 2019