Examples of early Ming stem-cups decorated with the sanduo are rare. However, one comparable example of the same date, similar in size and decoration, is illustrated in the Catalogue of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Underglaze Red Ware of the Ming Dynasty, pl. 3, and in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 92.; another was included in the special exhibition Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Catalogue, 1989, no. 55. An unmarked example of similar proportions is illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 39B.

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 29 November 1976, lot 472 and from the British Rail Pension Fund, 16 May 1989, lot 10