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No other vase of this form and decoration appears to have been recorded, although related examples have been published
A white-glazed bottle vase with a carved dragon design from the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, is illustrated in the Catalogue, vol.I, pl.135. A celadon-glazed globular vase with a very similar design, but without a reign mark, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol.11, col.pl.29; another is illustrated by Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, fig.183 . Compare also, the pale blue-glazed bottle vase from The Palace Museum, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p.462, pl.144, and the vase without a mark, sold in Hong Kong, 15 May 1990, lot 77. Cf. also, the Yongzheng period jar under a pale blue glaze illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Ceramics, vol.3, p.
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A white-glazed bottle vase with a carved dragon design from the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, is illustrated in the Catalogue, vol.I, pl.135. A celadon-glazed globular vase with a very similar design, but without a reign mark, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol.11, col.pl.29; another is illustrated by Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, fig.183 . Compare also, the pale blue-glazed bottle vase from The Palace Museum, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p.462, pl.144, and the vase without a mark, sold in Hong Kong, 15 May 1990, lot 77. Cf. also, the Yongzheng period jar under a pale blue glaze illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Ceramics, vol.3, p.
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