An unmarked dish with this design was sold in London, 15 July 1980, lot 93. Another dish, inscribed with an underglaze-blue Zhengde four-character mark, from the F. Howard Paget collection, is illustrated by Edgar E. Bluett, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelains, London, 1933, no. 52; and again by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 74, p. 98, where the author compares the dish with a blue and white bowl of the same period sent to Persia and published by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 61.