White-glazed meipings of this large size are very rare. A related slightly smaller white-glazed meiping in the Percival David Foundation incised with floral scrolls and dated to the 15th century is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodansha Series, vol. 6, fig. 80 (no. 468); another of much smaller size and slightly different shape with similar incised decoration is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Ming Official Wares, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, p. 34.

Cf. smaller blue and white meipings dated to the same period painted with related peach sprays, such as the example from the Frederick Mayer Collection, sold in our London Rooms, 24 June 1974, lot 96 and now in the Matsuoka Museum, Tokyo; the example illustrated by Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 51; and the Percival David Foundation, London, pl. 12, no. A610, section 3 of the illustrated Catalogue Porcelains Decorated in Underglaze-blue and Copper-red. Two further examples sold in our London Rooms, 9 December 1985, lot 154 and 8 June 1987, lot 159