Note: Jars of this type are known in important museum and private collections; compare a jar in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, included in the exhibition, In Pursuit of the Dragon, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1988, cat. no. 44; another example is illustrated in Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, cat. no. 6; yet another jar, formerly in the Avery Brundage Collection and now in the in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, is published in He Li, Chinese Ceramics. The New Standard Guide, London, 1996, pl. 483; and a fourth example from the Meiyintang collection, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 706, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 66.