Similar examples, including one with a cover in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum, Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, on the cover and pls. 4-4c; and by Daisy Lion-Goldsmith, La Porcelaine Ming, pl. 144; one in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Osaka, illustrated by Mary Ann Rogers in an article on the museum in Orientations, January 1986, fig. 12; one in the Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, p. 278, pl. 834; one in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Musée Guimet, pl. 23; one illustrated in the Catalogue of Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, no. 198, and discussed on p. 301; and another in Arts of the Ming Dynasty, Catalogue, no. 203. For a related but larger and more globular covered jar in the Ataka Collection, Osaka, see Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, 14, pl. 80. This example has a band of lappets around the foot and scrolling foliage around the neck.

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 12 May 1976, lot 51 and from the British Rail Pension Fund, 16 May 1989, lot 28