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Lot Essay
Vases of this type are usually found in large sizes such as the present lot. Published examples include a pair from the Japanese Imperial Collection included in the Tokyo National Museum Exhibition of Treasures Originally from the Horyu-ji, 1959, Catalogue, no. 300; and another illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, no. 485.
A related example with peony and lotus scrolls incised and inscribed with the date equivalent to 1454 is illustrated in the Percival David Foundation, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, London, 1977, pl. X, no. 99, and again in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 14, Tokyo, 1976, p. 266, fig. 137. See another example from the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Greatest Collections, vol. 9, 1976,
no. 188.
A related example with peony and lotus scrolls incised and inscribed with the date equivalent to 1454 is illustrated in the Percival David Foundation, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, London, 1977, pl. X, no. 99, and again in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 14, Tokyo, 1976, p. 266, fig. 137. See another example from the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Greatest Collections, vol. 9, 1976,
no. 188.