Note: Oil lamps of this form are very unusual and no other closely related example appears to have been published. A stem bowl fashioned with crouching lions, from the George Eumorfopoulos collection, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Rose Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, pl. 52; and one with a single lion was included in the exhibition The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, cat. no. 106. Small figures of crouching lions were unearthed at the Yaozhou kiln site and illustrated in The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Dynasty, Beijing, 1998, pl. LXXXIV, fig. 1-3.