Provenance:|The Joanna Lau Sullivan Trust|A related flower-shaped cup and two archaistic cups with circular bosses in the British Museum are illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 389, figs. 7 and 8.|Compare also a related floral cup from the Qing Court Collection and dated to the Ming dynasty illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (II), Hong Kong, 2006, no. 198. Two further examples, one carved as a peach and one as a flower, are illustrated by P.F. Schneeberger, The Baur Collection, Geneva: Chinese Jades and Other Hardstones, Geneva, 1976, nos. B41 and B42.