Soft-paste porcelain snuffbox with blue and white decoration of a cowherd, China, Xuantong period, 1909-1911 Cylindrical in shape, the slightly cracked beige porcelain features blue underglaze decoration of a small herdsman on his buffalo near a village, his hat rising above a large pine tree. Four-character Xuantong mark in kaishu under the foot. Height: 7.3 cm