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

A Hongzhi-marked and period yellow-glazed bowl of slightly smaller size (18.5 cm. diam.) in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 43, no. 38. Another example, also of larger size (20.3 cm.), from the Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Hall Collection, was included in the exhibition The Ceramic Art of China, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1971, no. 161.
For examples sold at auction, compare a bowl of a slightly smaller size (18.4 cm. diam.) sold at Sotheby's London, 13 May 2015, lot 112. Another example, also smaller in size (16 cm.), was sold at Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2010, lot 69. A further example, previously in the collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall, was sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 91.