This small tray seems to relate among published examples most closely to the oval tray in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, illustrated by D. Clifford, op. cit., no.30; and a tray offered for sale by Bluett and Sons in the 1989 exhibition, From Innovation to Conformity, Catalogue, pl.8. All three of these oval dishes are carved on the underside around the foot with a classic-scroll band of running design, more properly known as a Xiangcao design. It is a consistent feature that these are all extremely fragile, both in the deep red lacquer which is very crackled along the most brittle area, the stepped rim and even on the shallow black lacquer within the footrim on the underside. See also the dish illustrated by J.C.Y. Watt and B.B. Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, no.25, for a similar oval dish with a design enclosed by a shaped outline within a floral border