Of the Yuan dynasty guan which have been published, the most similar in design, but of slightly smaller size, is that in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1982, no. 111. As in the present example there is a band of 'blackberry lily' encircling the mouth rim and the bands of decoration are separated by double-line borders. Three other similarly decorated jars have an additional, narrow band of classic scroll below the main band of peony scroll. One collected in 1979 at Yenjialing, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, was included in the exhibition, The Silk Road, The Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1991, p. 139; another was included in the Exhibition of Oriental Ceramics, Tokyo National Museum, January 1 - February 19, 1978, Catalogue, no. 61; and one was illustrated in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1981, Catalogue, no. 748

Another jar of this type with the same main decoration, but with a wave band encircling the mouth rim and the narrow band of classic scroll below the peony band, is in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Underglaze Blue and White, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 38, no. 22; one was included in the Exhibition of Far Eastern Ceramics, Tokyo National Museum, 1970, Catalogue, p. 72, no. 81; and another, also with a wave band, but a narrow band of diaper pattern below the peony scroll and a band of chrysanthemum scroll on the shoulder, was included in the exhibition, Yuan and early Ming blue and white porcelain, Eskenazi, London, June 7 - July 8, 1994, Catalogue, no. 3