PROVENANCE: In the collection of the present owner prior to April of 1985 Example:Examples of vases of the present scale and decoration are rare. For comparable vases see the examples sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, October 23, 2005, lot 357 (where it was noted a similar example was sold in those rooms, November 5, 1996, lot 820); and the example sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, April 4, 2012, lot 3239 (where it was noted at the time that only three examples were known)