Similar examples of this rare and brilliantly decorated meiping are in the Palace Museum (35.5cm.), illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 194, pl. 23; in the Havermeyer Collection (13in.), Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. II, New York, 1949, pl. 164 (top right); and in the Hermitage Museum (35.5cm.), included in the exhibition, Chinese Porcleains in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 1977, illustrated by T. Arapova in the Catalogue, p. 129, no. 195. Another (13 3/8in.), previously in the collection of Stephen Junkunc III, was sold in these rooms, September 21, 1995, lot 225

These Yongzheng vases are based on early Ming prototypes, such as the underglaze-red meiping of Yongle date illustrated by Geng Baocheng, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 19 (bottom right). There are other Qing versions that more closely resemble the early fifteenth century prototypes, as opposed to the more refined shape and style of decoration of the persent example and the ones in the Palace Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hermitage. See the meiping in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A526, which has a Xuande mark, but which has been dated circa 1720-30; and the Yongzheng example illustrated in Min Shin no Bijutsu, Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, 1980, p. 38, no. 1-161