A nearly identical lacquer dish, inscribed Zhang Cheng zao, is in the Tokyo National Museum, and was included in the exhibition, Carved Lacquer, the Tokugawa Art Museum and Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Japan, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 76. A closely related bracket-lobed dish carved with the same lotus pond scene but with the addition of a pair of geese is illustrated ibid., no. 42; while another of this type in black lacquer, is in the British Museum, illustrated by Sir Harry Garner, Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, fig. 44. Compare also the hexafoil box in the present sale, lot 1530.

This design of the lotus pond was the prototype for several dishes in the Ming dynasty, such as those carved with and without birds, illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, pls. 360-362.