A similar example but without a dish base is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, col. pl. 18. A white-glazed example is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, p. 50, fig. 114. Another glazed white and without a cover from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 11, col. pl. 17. A third white-glazed example from the Yamato Bunkakan Musuem is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 11, col. pl. 20. Cf. also the green-glazed candlestick from the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated in American Exhibitions of Chinese Art, no. 92, where similarly coiled dragons form the stem.

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