This seems to be a rare survival of a simple domestic object, presumably commissioned by a relatively high member of society from a potter at Jingdezhen. A comparable example painted with figures on horseback is in the Victoria and Albert Museum from the Eccles gift, dated 1475-1500, illustrated by Rose Kerr in the Catalogue of the T.T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art, Chinese Art and Design, p. 23, pl. 2; and another is in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, vol. 6, pl. 117: and painted in the interior with winged carp dragons.

Another example from the Robert Chang Collection was included in the exhibition at Christie's London, 1993, Catalogue, no.14. This is painted with prunus branch and a crescent moon to the interior and Indian lotus to the exterior