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

This unusual double decoration, combining famille verte motifs and anhua dragons, is found only on bowls of this design and corresponding dishes decorated with pomegranates. Several similar bowls have been published including one in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enameled Porcelains - Plain Tricolored Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, pl. 221; two bowls from the Riesco Collection, one illustrated by Edgar E. Bluett, The Riesco Collection of Old Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1951, fig. 31, the other sold at Christies Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2114; another example illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, pl. 889; one illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 81; and a pair from the Chang Foundation is illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pl. 121.