Compare to similar bowls, the first carved with lychees from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, illustrated in Hai-wai Yi-chen - Chinese Art in Overseas Collection, Lacquerware, National Palace Museum, 1987, p. 86, no. 83; and a pair of bowls dated to the mid-Ming period from the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo Qiqi Quanji, vol. 5, Fujian meishu chubanshe, 1995, no. 74.