The globular body is raised on a stepped foot and rises to a long cylindrical neck and terminating in a shallow cup-shaped rim. The vase is covered with a yellowish-green glaze suffused with dark speckles, wood stand, Japanese wood box. 

Provenance: A Japanese private collection, acquired in the first half of 20th century

Note: This unusual yellowish-green glaze, lighter in colour to the teadust glaze, is known by its Chinese name as 'eel-skin'-yellow.

Compare to a nearly identical vase sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 2003, lot 344, and a very similar example of slightly smaller size sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2314. Compare also to a smaller example with wider neck and splayed foot, sold at Christie's London, 18 June 2002, lot 50.