For a slightly larger unglazed gray pottery example excavated in 1973 from a Yuan tomb at Xifengfeng, Henan, see Zhongghuo meishu quanji, diaosu, vol. 6, Beijing, 1988, no. 59. The same, or a very similar figure, along with another one in the same group, is illustrated by Barry Till and Paula Swart, Images from the Tomb: Chinese Burial Figurines, British Columbia, 1988, p.82, fig. VII. They are described as 'carved brick theatrical figures from the Jin and Yuan dynasties which have been found in Henan and Shaanxi' and according to the authors, these are Zaju or mixed drama performers and were usually placed on miniature theatrical stages in the walls of a tomb chamber.