HONGZHI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1488-1505)

Several Hongzhi mark and period yellow-glazed dishes have been published, including one held in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, p. 447, no. 774; and another one found in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by D. Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, Fribourg, 1986, pl. 113.

John Alexander Pope mentions that in 1611, Shah Abbas dedicated a group of Chinese porcelain to the Ardebil Shrine, among which sixteen of those were monochrome yellow-glazed wares dating to the Hongzhi, Zhengde, Jiajing and Wanli periods. See J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, p. 151.