Cf.a very similar dish illustrated by J. A. Pope, op.cit., pl.35, nos. 29.101, 29.106, and 29.109; another from the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book I, Catalogue, pls. 22 and 22a, p.82; another in Toji Taikei, no.42, fig.13, from the Matsuoka Collection; in the Philadelphia Exhibition of Ming Blue and White, 1949, Catalogue, no.40; and in the Barlow Collection, Catalogue, no.130a. The evolution of the design onto Ottoman wares of the early 16th Century is discussed and illustrated with reference to examples of the Chinese prototype and the Iznik equivalent in the British Museum by J. Rawson, Chinese Ornament: the Lotus and the Dragon, fig.163