W:19cmA Blue and White'Sea Creatures' Bowl, six character seal mark of Daoguang and of the periodfinely painted in soft blue on the exterior with mythical sea beasts, including dragons, sea horses and other stranger creatures, including one with deer body and elephant head, all on a stormy background of breaking waves, beneath a meander band at the rim between double line borders, and a formal wave border round the footrim, the interior with a central medallion of a winged elephant on wavesSpray restoration of a broken area of the body.