ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

Compare a dish of similar size illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, p. 93, no. 69. A slightly larger example in the Indianapolis Museum of Art is illustrated in Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1985, pp. 248-9, pl. 98; and another in the Asia Society Handbook of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III Collection, The Asia Society, New York, 1981, p. 79. A slightly larger example was sold at Christie's New York, 23 March 1995, lot 101.