Lacquer scroll rests are extremely rare and appear to be found primarily in Japanese collections, suggesting they may have been made by special order for the Japanese market.

Compare with another carved lacquer scroll rest carved to each surface with a dense composite flower meander, but constructed with twin recessed planes to the upper section to hold a pair of scrolls in the Tokugawa Art Museum illustrated in Imported Lacquerwork -Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan, Japan, 1997, no. 66