A very similar vase is illustrated by S.J. Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, p. 89; a smaller vase in the British Museum, London, is included in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, 1981, vol. 5, no. 55. Cf. also the similar vases sold in our New York Rooms, 1 December 1988, lot 255 and another 10 December 1981, lot 213. Another example of a Song white-glazed bottle vase varying slightly in form from this one is in the Hakone Art Museum, Japan, and illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 637; and another, formerly in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, is illustrated by William Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, 1984, pl. 96, no. 63