Note: The present bowl is a rare example of jade bowls carved with four of the Buddhist emblems. Fashioned from a luminous white jade stone, its high quality is accentuated by the subtle low-relief carving and immaculately polished surface.

Compare a shallow bowl similarly decorated with four panels enclosing four of the Eight Buddhist Treasures between four smaller panels containing the characters jixiang ruyi, but raised on four feet and carved to the interior with a flower spray and lingzhi fungus, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages. Connoisseurship of Chinese Jades, vol. 11, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 31. For a circular box carved with a related design of four of the Eight Buddhist symbols on the belly and the other four on the cover within panels and also separated by smaller panels containing characters, see one in the Baur Collection, published in Pierre-F. Scheeberger, The Baur Collection. Chinese Jades and Other Hardstones, Geneva, 1976, pl. B53.

See also a white jade shallow bowl carved with the bajixiang amidst clouds, the interior with a lily bush, sold at Christie's London, 11th May 2010, lot 95; and a white jade octagonal shallow bowl carved on each facet with one of the Eight Buddhist Emblems, with ringed handles and raised on four feet, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3rd December 2008, lot 2605.