A WHITE JADE INSCRIBED SNUFF BOTTLE


1780-1820Well hollowed, of flattened spade shape with a waisted neck and thin, everted lip, resting on a neatly carved foot with a concave base, one face incised with birds and a blossoming tree, the reverse with an imperial poem incised in clerical script. 2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
|1780-1820年 白玉雕御題詩紋鼻煙壺Provenance: William A Parker Jr.IllustratedChinese Porcelain Company, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Fernhill Park Collection, New York, 1991, no. 51.Regarding the poetic stanza that appears on this bottle, the complete poem appears on in the Siku Quanshu, Imperial Poems, vol 2, juan 86. The original poem was inscribed by the Qianlong emperor in 1759 on a painting of Twin Sparrows with a Blossoming Apricot Tree by Zou Yigui (1686-1772).