Cf. several equally fine examples of carved lacquer with this motif in important collections such the dragon bowl dated 1589 included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art special exhibition, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, 1991, Catalogue, no. 103, where J. Watt and B. Ford explain that a number of carved lacquers from official workshops of the Jiajing and Wanli reigns are marked with the year of production. Several relevant wares in the Palace Museum, Beijing are illustrated by Wang Shixinag, Ancient Chinese Lacquerware, such as another dragon bowl dated 1589 carved from yellow and red lacquer (no. 66) and a rectangular polychorme-lacquer box dated 1595 with a full faced dragon (no. 65). A larger rectangular box also dated 1595 and carved with the same motif in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, is illustrated by Garner, Chinese Lacquer, no. 88; together with a polychrome-lacquer dragon and phoenix dish dated 1593 from the British Museum, col. pl. D; and a Longqing marked basin from the same museum with a dragon striding amid clouds and above waves as no. 87