Kangxi-marked dishes of this design include one illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 192; one illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 133; one from the Chang Foundation, Taipei, illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pl. 122; and another illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 98, where Yang Boda mentions in his introduction to the collection that the dish is an excellent example of Imperial wucai tableware, p. 61. Similar examples were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 April 1997, lot 788; and at Christie's New York, 30 March 2005, lot 404.

Cf. also the possible prototype to these Kangxi dishes, a famille verte dragon and phoenix dish with Wanli mark, such as the example from the Rogers Fund, Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 185, which is designed with a dragon and phoenix in the centre amidst floral scrolls and pairs around the cavetto and exterior.

The representations of dragons and phoenix are motifs emblematic of the Emperor and the Empress.