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

A Kangxi mark-and-period bowl of the same design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains, Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Hong Kong, 2009, p. 186, no. 147.

A very similarly rendered iron-red dragon can also be seen on the Kangxi-marked jar and cover, painted with a dragon and phoenix, in the Qing Court Collection in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colors, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 227, no. 208. Compare, also, the polychrome-decorated Kangxi-marked 'dragon' bowl illustrated, ibid., p. 165, no. 151.