Compare the very similar gilt-bronze coiled feline, dated Eastern Zhou, 4th-3rd century BC, illustrated in The Ernest Erickson Collection in Swedish Museums, J. Wirgin (ed.), Stockholm, 1989, p. 41, no. 39, where the Falk example is cited. The design is compared to Scythian antecedents, especially the curled feline body, and the rendering of the mouth and round eyes.