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

Few bowls of this unusual shape and design appear to have been published. Compare a similar bowl in the collection of Helen and Peter Lin illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Joined Colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain - Ceramics from Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., 1993, p. 101, no. 30. See, also, the similar bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1494, and two others sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 November 1977, lot 187 and 23 October 2005, lot 463.