A stembowl with seemingly identical dragons and reign mark from the Brankston Collection is illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, col. pl. 43. Brankston illustrates a line drawing of a similar full-face dragon and archaistic reign mark in Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, fig. 1, where he notes that a bowl in the British Museum from the Franks Collection is similarly decorated, as is another bowl from the Eumorfopoulos Collection. Cf. the Oppenheim cup in the British Museum (7-12 276) which is part of the same group.

A very similar example sold in these Rooms, 2 May 1994, lot 642. Compare also to a stembowl with anhua dragons and a four-character Yongle mark, illustrated by duBoulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 155 top, sold in our London Rooms, 11 December 1978, lot 119; and one from the Frederick M. Mayer collection also sold in our London Rooms, 24 June 1974, lot 82