WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Compare the present jar with a number of related yellow-and green-glazed Wanli-marked jars decorated with dragons enclosed within barbed cartouches, including one from the Yokogawa collection illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Greatest Collections, Vol. 1, Tokyo National Museum, 1982, no. 124, and another in the Baur collection, Geneva illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, Vol. 2, Geneva, 1969, no. A208.