The main motif on this zhi and cover appears to be rarely used as the central design motif, except on zun, but rather as a subsidiary component. Several zun on which this 'square and crescent' or flower motif forms the main decorative motif on the knop, are illustrated; one from the C.T. Loo Collection illustrated by Bernhard Karlgren, "New Studies on Chinese Bronzes", B.M.F.E.A., No. 9, 1937, pl. XLIX, no. 733; one illustrated by Karlgren, "Some Characteristics of the Yin Art", B.M.F.E.A., No. 34, 1962, pl. 73a; and another unearthed from the Western District in Yinxu, Anyang, Henan province in 1972, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji, Gongyi meishu, qingtongqi (A Complete Collection of Chinese Art; Arts and Crafts; Bronzes), vol. 1, Beijing, 1986, no. 55

As a subsidiary motif it can be seen in a band of decoration below the rim of a li ding in the Avery Brundage Collection, illustrated by d'Argencé, The Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Berkeley, 1966, pl. III. The motif appears alternating with whorl motifs in a band below the rim on a ding in the Princeton University Art Museum, included in the exhibition, Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, Asia Society, 1968, Catalogue, no. 22, where the author, Max Loehr, mentions that this motif occurs on pottery as early as the Erligang phase. It can also be seen on the knop of a gu illustrated by Minao Hayashi, Studies on Yin and Zhou Bronze Decoration, vol. II, Tokyo, 1986, p. 324, fig. 12-112. On the same page, rubbings of this motif taken from various vessels are also illustrated