KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Kangxi mark-and-period ‘dragon’ dishes of this design and comparable size include the example from the Palace Museum, Beijing, included in the exhibition Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644-1912, Peabody Essex Museum and Freer Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, 18 August 2008 – 23 June 2019, p. 62, fig. 2, cat. no. 125; the dish published in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1965, p. 147, no. 615; and the dish illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 1047. See, also, the similar Kangxi ‘dragon’ dish from the Ji Rui Tang Collection sold at Sotheby’s New York, 20 March 2018, lot 319.