The present vase was included in the 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace, Dresden, under number 138: "Sechs und zwanzig Stück 6.eckichte Flaschen, divers, 13. Zoll hoch, 8 Zoll weit, No. 138.', [ twenty-six six-sided bottles (vases), various...], Boltz, 1996, p. 22.

This vase belongs to the group of Meissen porcelains ordered by the Paris merchant Rudolph Lemaire who intended to sell them as Japanese originals, which were subsequently seized and incorporated into Augustus the Strong's collection. For a note on Lemaire see lot 26. Most recently vases of this type have been discussed by Weber, 2013, pp. 118-23, who illustrates a Meissen vase with this decoration in the Schneider Collection, kat. no. 108, as well as a pair of Japanese originals mounted with Parisian gilt-bronze mounts of circa 1725-35, in the Musée du Louvre, abb. 20.

A vase of this form and decoration bearing Japanese Palace inventory number 138, remains in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, inv. no. PE 651, illustrated in Shono, 1973, pl. 58. A pair of gilt-bronze-mounted Meissen hexagonal vases with this decoration was sold at Sotheby's London, February 9, 1960, lot 163, with one cover catalogued as having an "incised Johanneum mark" (Japanese Palace inventory number). A vase of this form, bearing a caduceus mark, was sold at Sotheby's New York, October 27, 2001, lot 6, and subsequently at Bonhams London, December 6, 2018, lot 264.