Compare a related censer, painted with mythical beasts and with a dedicatory inscription, illustrated in Qing Shunzhi Kangxi qiao qinghua ci, vol.1, Beijing, 2005, pl. 25, together with another censer of this form decorated with flora and fauna, pl. 26, both from the Palace Museum collection. Another censer of this type with an inscription dated to the yihai year (equivalent to A.D.1695.) is published in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 65.

A censer of slightly different proportions decorated with mythical creatures, from the Shanghai Museum, was included in the exhibition Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections, Shanghai Museum, 2006, p. 108, cat.no. 22, where it is noted that 'the overall shape of this censer is not that different from other blue-and-white censers from the late Ming and early Qing periods.' 

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, London, 16 May 2007