Similar weights have been found in groups of four. Compare with the set published in the exhibition catalogue, Homage to Heaven, Homage to Earth: Chinese Treasures of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1992, no. 62, each with pairs of animals in confrontation.

A comparable gold and silver inlaid tiger weight without the circular base from the Paul Singer Collection was included by Loehr in Relics of Ancient China, 1965, Asia Society, exhibition catalogue, no. 114, p. 128. For a pair of gold and silver-inlaid leopard form weights seated encircled by mountains, see Eskenazi, Sculpture and Ornament in Early Chinese Art, 1996, exhibition catalogue, no. 17 where it is stated these objects may have been used to weigh down scrolls and later on, were used in fours to weight down funerary palls in burials.