The form of the present lot is very rare, and no other vessel of this shape, design and colour appears to have been published. The closest comparisons are two yellow-enamelled stembowls of this silhouette and similarly incised with the bajixiang, both with Yongzheng marks: the first previously from the collections of Messrs. Sparks and W. A. Younger, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1961, pl. XXXVI, fig. 2; and the other sold in these Rooms, 1 November 2004, lot 1139.

The design of the bajixiang and the shape of the stembowl may be found on a Xuande-marked blue and white prototype in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by S. Pierson, Designs as Signs, London, 2001, fig. 81.