The cylindrical body rises to a slender straight neck below a wide, everted dished mouth. It is covered with an even white glaze stopping neatly around the foot rim, wood stand. 

Provenance: J.P. Morgan Collection, no. 1346
J. Insley Blair (1870-1939) and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature: The J. Insley Blair Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Tuxedo Park, New York, 1925, pl. I, no. 44

Note: White-glazed vases of this form and small size appear to be very rare with only a few published examples. These include a pair included in the exhibition Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, The Zhuyuetang Collection, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005, Catalogue, pl. 16 and another pair originally in the E.T. Hall Collection, sold at Christie's London, 7 June 2004, lot 263.