This type of stem dish gained popularity during the Sui Dynasty, and its presence can be found in Sui-era paintings and murals. Compare a green-glazed stem dish of slightly larger size in the Palace Museum, Beijing (accession no. 新00140853); another example of a single stem dish in the Museum of Fine Art, Boston (accession no. 50.1362), formerly in the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, illustrated in Hsien-Ch’i Tseng and Robert Paul Dart, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, vol. 1, New York, 1964, pl. 65; one stem dish of larger size in the Barlow Collection, illustrated in Michael Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 27c.