A (lot of 8) Chinese porcelain bowls comprising a pair gilt rimmed yellow ground bowls with sparrows perched on cherry blossom branches; a second white ground pair inverted bell shape bowls decorated with butterflies and double happiness symbols with ruyi sceptre rim, lappet and fretwork borders; a third pair decorated in iron red with carp and stylized water foot border as well as green Daoist linear symbols; the fourth coral red ground bowls with gilt double happiness symbols and fretwork rim border, each bowl with an iron red or underglaze blue four or six character Tongzhi marks to base; the largest 2.5"h x 3.5"d