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

A similar example, with the Eight Trigrams above the waves, is in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains, London, 1976, p. 76, no. C619. Another similar example, reserved in white on a coral ground with a Yongzheng mark, is included in J.J. Marquet de Vasselot and Mlle. M.J. Ballot, Chinese Ceramics, K’ang Hsi Period to Our Days (1662-1911), The Louvre Museum, Paris, 1922, colour plate 30.