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

Compare the current bowl to a nearly identical example in the collection of the British Museum, which is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pp. 330-1, pl. 11:143. Another example is held in the C.P. Lin collection, illustrated in Ming and Qing Chinese Arts, Hong Kong, 2014, p. 207, pl. 107.