Compare the baluster vase similar both in form and painterly decoration, dated to the early Kangxi period, included in the exhibition, Chinese Antiquities from the Brian S. McElney Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, January 16-June 21, 1987, Catalogue, p. 131, no. 87. Like the present lot, this vase also bears an apocryphal Ming mark, in this instance a Chenghua six-character mark