Lot Essay
A near identical example in the Shanghai museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, pl. 51; two in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, are illustrated in the Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book I, pls. 14, 15 and in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 11; on in the Freer Gallery of Art in Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, 1981, vol. 9, no. 92; and another with a cover, formerly in the T.Y. Chao collection, is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. 1, fig. 11