Compare a closely related stone head of an official, wearing the same official cap and rendered with similar facial features, attributed to the Yuan / Ming dynasty, sold at Christie's New York, 20th September 2004, lot 138. See also two related cast iron examples with similar headdresses, from the Avery Brundage Collection, attributed to the Ming dynasty, published in René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1974, cat. nos 165 and 166.