Lianzi, or lotus fruit, with gently curved sides and straight rims, decorated on the exterior with either a single band or double bands of elongated underglaze-blue petals, was favored at the court during the Xuande reign, and the model was subsequently reproduced in the late Ming and Qing dynasties as a tribute to the Xuande originals.
Several bowls featuring two bands of lotus petals on the exterior have been published, including an example reconstructed from shards recovered at the Zhushan Imperial kilns, illustrated in Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1998, fig. 107. Another example, from the Dr Stephen Wootton Bushell bequest in the British Museum, is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, London, 2000, p. 134, fig. 4:27.