of flattened ovoid form with a waisted neck, the outer shell incised and pierced with the design of the ‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’ between ruyi-bands surrounding the shoulder and base, all covered with a white glaze

The Bob C. Stevens Collection.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet Honolulu, 7th November 1981, lot 58.

Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo, 22nd - 31st October 1978, catalogue no. 70.

Bob C. Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1980, no. 264.

There is a chip to the ribbon of one emblem. There are scattered firing cracks and small glaze chips to the body.
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