seated, he holds a drum in his left hand and a stick in his right. He wears a long, cross-over robe, held by a ring clasp on his left shoulder, decorated in lapis lazuli, turquoise and red enamels with the Eight Daoist Emblems amid C-scrolls, clouds and flowers; the hems are gilt and chased. The monk’s head is finely and naturalistically cast and his face bears a cheerful expression.

Avitabile illustrates a similar figure of Budai in Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland: Chinesische und japanische Cloisonné- und Champlevé-Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900, no. 107, p. 187. See also a related cloisonné enamel Buddhist figure in Brown, Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection, pl. 47, pp. 108–09; and a copper example with repoussé decoration in “The Arts of the Ming Dynasty”, no. 295.