A Chinese blue-and-white 'dragon' bowl, Wanli six-character mark and of the period painted on the underside with six Daoist figures separated by auspicious flora all under a band of decorative patterns, 11.6 cm diam. Provenance: NSW Private Collection. Collection. of Lowder Lawsons Sydney, 19 May 1942, lot 168 Exhibition: 'Pots and Porcelain', Ceramic Society of Australia Sydney, 12 - 24 November 1957, Cat No. 63 '1000 years of Chinese Ceramics - the National Trust of Australia at Lindesay', Cat No. 57 Published: J. H. Myrtle, 'Underglaze Blue and Blue in Chinese Porcelain', Part I, Fig 9, Antique Collector August 1959