MING DYNASTY, EARLY 15TH CENTURY

A celadon vase of similar proportions with similar decoration on the neck and lower body, but with a peony scroll rather than a chrysanthemum scroll at the shoulder, is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu: Ming, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 14, no. 231. Similar example of similar height can also be found in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, which is illustrated in Tsai Mei-fen, Green: Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, p. 158, pl. 81. Compare, also, the well-known celadon vase in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, now on long-term loan to the British Museum, with an incised inscription at the base of its slender, tapering neck dating the vase to 1454, see Stacey Pierson, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997, p. 35, no. 238.

A vase of shorter height yet of similar shape, incised with foliate scroll on the shoulder, but dated to Yuan dynasty, is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 577.