Underglaze blue porcelain round bowl with marine mythical creatures around the wall and a winged dragon on the inside of the base

Description:

China, underglaze blue Daoguang seal mark and possibly of the period
D. 21,2 cm
From an old European private collection, assembled before 2007
A Daguang bowl from the Collection of Simon Kwan was included in the Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, Catalogue no. 22, and a Qianlong example in the O.C.S. Exhibition of The Animal in Chinese Art, London, 1968, Catalogue no. 164, where the animals are described as 'seahorses, flying-horse, flying carp, fish-dragon, douniu, xiezhai and baize - Minimal glaze chips or frits to mouth rim, small glaze imperfection to body