Note: A fragmentary vase of this form and decoration, recovered from the Cizhou type kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province, is illustrated in Guantai cizhou yaozhi/ The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, pl. 70, fig. 1; another was included in the exhibition Charm of Black and White Ware. Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 2002, cat. no. 108; and a third from the collection of Gustaf Lindberg, was sold twice in our London rooms, 12th December 1978, lot 151, and 9th June 2004, lot 164.

Compare also a green-glazed Cizhou 'prunus' meiping, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 151.