In modern times, China Airlines has even used these ivory spheres in advertisements to imply that their in-flight service personnel are as attentive to the "little things" as an ivory craftsman is to his carving.
中華航空公司曾借象牙球作廣告，敬告消費者：空服員的細心體貼如牙雕手工般一絲不苟，飛行再遙遠，也能忘掉旅途勞頓。