The vase is finely potted with a globular body rising to a long cylindrical neck and terminating in a shallow cup-shaped rim, supported on a stepped foot. It is applied overall with a lustrous yellowish-green glaze with darker speckles, stand, box. 

Provenance: Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 April 2001, lot 716.

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 similar vase of slightly larger size, sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 2003, lot 344; another smaller example, sold at Christie's London, 18 June 2002, lot 50.