This vase is of unusually small size, however, a similar vase was sold in these Rooms, 31 October 1994, lot 530. Slightly larger comparable examples have also been published: one in the Bishmon-do Temple, previously in the possession of a branch of the Tokugawa Family, the former Daimyos of Kyushu, is illustrated by G. St. Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, Hong Kong, 1962, 1980, pl. 78; another two are illustrated ibid., one from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, col. pl. G and the other, from the Yomei Bunko Collection, pl. 80; one in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, is illustrated in Lung-Chuan Ware of the Sung Dynasty, pls. 5-5a; and three vases are illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Japan, 1977, vol. 12, pls. 82 (the one from the Bishmon-do Temple), 209 and 210. Y. Mino and K. Tsiang in the Catalogue for the Indianapolis Museum of Art exhibition Ice and Green Clouds, Indianapolis, 1986, also discuss and illustrate the famous Bishmon-do Temple vase, pl. 78a, together with other Kinuta vases, pls. 78-78h.

Mallet vases with dragon and phoenix handles were also found in the wreck of the Yuan dynasty ship near Sinan and were included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off Sinan Coast, Seoul, 1977, and illustrated in the Catalogue, pls. 4-7.