  Poncelet polygons inscribed in a circle and circumscribed about conics from a
confocal family naturally arise in the analysis of the numerical range and
Blaschke products. We examine the behaviour of such polygons when the inscribed
conic varies through a confocal pencil and discover cases when each conic from
the confocal family is inscribed in an $n$-polygon, which is inscribed in the
circle, with the same $n$. Complete geometric characterization of such cases
for $n\in\{4,6\}$ is given and proved that this cannot happen for other values
of $n$. We establish a relationship of such families of Poncelet quadrangles
and hexagons to solutions of a Painlev\'e VI equation.
