Lot Essay
Other boldly painted vases of this type are illustrated by Medley, The Chinese Potter, New York, 1976, fig. 100; in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, nos. 592 and 593; by Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, pl. 27; and another in The British Museum, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 71