No other example of this design has been published. A smaller but closely related example (42 cm. high without foot) is illustrated by T. Mitsugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East, Topkapi and Ardebil, II, T7. The central design is of mandarin ducks without the willow trees, alternating with floral not tree panels. Another smaller octagonal jar (44.5cm. high) from the Frederick M. Mayer collection sold in our London Rooms, 24 June 1974, lot 77. That jar, now in the Matsuoka Museum, Tokyo, is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan series, vol. 13, no. 144 and Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, Matsuoka Museum of Art, no. 38. The cloud collars, ogival panels and scrolling ground are similar in both examples but the Matsuoka jar is decorated with a praying mantis, a beetle and two pairs of phoenix among flowering plants. The distribution of flowers within the cloud collars also differs.

An octagonal jar of similar size and shape measuring 51cm. high with cover and decorated with dragons amidst waves and a four-pointed cloud collar depicting phoenix and qilin is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan series, vol. 13. It was excavated in Baoding, Hebei and is now in the Hebei Provincial Museum.

Cf. ibid no. 203 for a jar in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge with similar ogival panels, cloud collars and scrolling ground but unusually the shape lies between a guan and a meiping.
Also cf. the rare octagonal guan sold in these rooms 23 March, 1993, lot 708 with related panels and scrolling ground but depicting phoenix and qilin