The use of green lacquer to decorate underside of the flange and the splayed foot is highly unusual. The only other example appears to be the bowlstand in the Shandong Provincial Museum, illustrated in Shangdong Sheng Bowuyuan Cangzhen - Gongyi Pinyuan, Shandong wenhua yinxiang chubanshe, 2004, no. 49. Green lacquer is rare in the Chinese lacquer repertoire. As recorded by Song Minqiu (1019-1079), green lacquer vessels were first used by prime minister Wang Dan (957-1017), cf. 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, the Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic Society and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993, p. 58.