Note: The design of the present vase is very rare, with only a small number of comparable examples published. An identical vase is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p. 170, pl. 1, and sold in our London Rooms, 11 December 1978, lot 111; while a smaller vase (32 cm. high) with the same pattern is in the Matsuoka Art Museum, Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Japan, 1976, pl. 916. Compare also a variation on this vase, a Wanli-marked zun-shaped vase enamelled with flower baskets and dragons and phoenix, included in the exhibition Imperial Overglaze-Enamelled Wares in the Late Ming Dynasty, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 27.