A similar Chinese porcelain bowl with this unusual enamelled decoration is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum and an armorial stoneware mug dated 1706 decorated by the same hand is in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. For a detailed discussion of these two pieces see E.C.C. Transactions, No. 8, vol. 2, 1942, 'A dated Staffordshire mug in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff - A Paper read by Bernard Rackham on April 18th, 1939', pp. 145-148 and pl. LII a - c, where he concludes that the decoration was executed by an enameller brought over from Holland by the Elers brothers who had set up a kiln in Bradwell Wood, near Wolstanton, not far from Burslem