Bowl, hard paste porcelain, shallow ribbed shape with scalloped rim, decorated with chrysanthemum roundels and flowering branches in Chinese Imari colours with the addition of green; base marked with the Musical Stone symbol (ch'ing), made in Jingdezhen

Bowl, hard paste porcelain, shallow ribbed shape with scalloped rim, decorated with chrysanthemum roundels and flowering branches in Chinese Imari colours with the addition of green; base marked with the Musical Stone symbol (ch'ing), made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, c1705-1720
the mark of the Musical Stone or Jade Gong, an L-shaped instrument, is one of the Eight Precious Things and symbolic of wise and felicitous management