A similar dragon handle excavated in 1976-1977 is published in Kaogu Xuebao, 1982:3, pp. 351-66; another example from the Stoclet Collection, Belgium, was included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-6, catalogue, fig. 541.

J. Rawson and E. Bunker have alluded to the use of such fittings as handles on lacquer vessels, see Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, 1990, Hong Kong Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, no. 117