The body carved with peony scroll above a band of petal lappets and below bands of classic scroll and key fret at the base of the waisted neck, covered with a glaze of olive-green color, the unglazed foot burnt orange in the firing, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: Japanese private collection.

Note: Compare the similarly decorated vase excavated in 1973, in Hefei, Anhui province, from a tomb dated to the 12th year of Yongle (1414) illustrated in Porcelain Collected in Anhui Province Museum, Anhui, 2002, no. 103. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 22 March 2007