Tripod dishes of this type can be found with a number of designs including rosettes, lotus leaves, and clouds and geese, as in the present example. Glaze colours also vary within the repertoire of Tang sancai lead glazes. Examples can be found with rounded and flattened rims.

For other examples depicting a goose surrounded by eight lotus leaves cf. the dish illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, no. 33; also one in the Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Samuel C. Davis, Missouri, illustrated by W.Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, p. 169, no. 181; and one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York included by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics p. 65, pl. 57

M. Medley illustrates an example with a similar design in Tang Pottery and Porcelain pl. 31 and a larger dish with a flat rim and dappled background in ibid., p.32. On p. 41 she notes that "It is almost certainly silver with traced decoration that is the source for the impressed designs on the offering-trays, dishes and wrist rests". Elsewhere in the PDF Monograph Series, no. 2, p. 4, she explains that dishes and plates with flattened rims, found both in silver and impressed polychrome-glazed pottery ranging from late 7th-early 8th centuries, were inspired by Iranian metalwork.