Compare the similar, but recumbent, water buffalo in the Natanael Wessen Collection illustrated by Karlgren and Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes, pl. 67, no. 51 b, where it is called Huai, referring to the bronze style which was prevalent during the period circa 650-200 B.C., and so named because the first examples of "this style were found in the regions around the Huai river in the eastern part of Central China". The Wessen example, described as being off the lid of a ding or lian, is very similarly modeled and has the same hair markings