Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 21 May, 1985, lot 85.

A bowl of this pattern in Beijing Palace Museum, is illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, p.156 (see fig.1); one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei is illustrated in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Procelains of the Ming Dynasty, p.144 (see fig.2); another bowl of the same pattern from the Lauritzen Collection is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 9, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1982, no. 220.