Two very similar pails are known in public collections, one in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Melikian-Chirvani, A.S.: Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8th-18th centuries, London, 1982, no.135), the other in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (Melikian-Chirvani, A.S.: Le Bronze Iranien, Paris, 1973, p.106). All three are very similar in size, proportion and decoration. Melikian suggests that the other two, for these reasons, were probably made in the same workshop. The same would follow for the present example, which simply reverses the two main decorative bands of the Victoria and Albert example.