KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Bowls of this green and aubergine enamel design are known with the reign mark either written in three or two line format. An identical Kangxi bowl with the reign mark written in the same three line format as the present bowl, in the Helen and Peter Lin Collection, was included in the exhibition, Joined Colors, Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1993, p. 91, no. 20. The same publication also illustrates another Kangxi bowl of this design from the same Helen and Peter Lin Collection with its reign mark written in a two line format, p. 90, no. 19.