An imperial underglaze blue decorated bowl with the 'Eight Daoist Immortals'

Description:

China, underglaze blue Daoguang six-character seal mark and period
D. 10,8 cm
Decorated around the wall in finely graduated underglaze blue tones. Seal mark on the base
From old German diplomatic property, by descent to the present owners
Compare a bowl from the Weishaupt Collection, published in Gunhild Avitabile, From the Dragon’s Treasure, Chinese Porcelain from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, London, 1987, cat. no. 88 - Well preserved