For a similar piece in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see Minji meihin zuroku [Illustrated catalogue of important Ming porcelains], Tokyo, 1977-8, vol. 2, pl. 92; for one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Zhongguo taoci quanji [Complete series on Chinese ceramics], Shanghai, 1999-2000, vol. 12, pl. 147; one in the Sir Percival David Collection in the British Museum is published in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, 1980-82, vol. 6, pl. 124; and another from the Lauritzen collection in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, op.cit., vol. 8, pl. 228. A similar piece from the collections of L.F. Hay, H.M. Knight, and Frederick Knight, included in the exhibition Oosterse Schatten. 4000 Jaar Aziatische Kunst, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1954, cat. no. 247, was sold three times in our rooms, in London, 16th June 1939, lot 99, in Hong Kong, 18th May 1982, lot 30, and in New York, 15th June 1983, lot 278. A matching dish, also in the Meiyintang collection is published in Krahl, op.cit., vol. 4, no. 1679; a deep bowl and another dish of this design in the Shanghai Museum are illustrated in Lu Minghua, Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Ming imperial porcelain], Shanghai, 2007, pls 3-77 and 3.78.

Zhadou jar with dragons amid lotus scrolls, Ming dynasty, Zhengde mark and period AD 1506–21. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, 12,2 x 15,5 cm. Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, PDF A682 © Trustees of the British Museum.