A compressed oval shape snuff bottle with engraved lotus and inscription designLate 18th/early 19th centuryWell-hollowed, the flattened bottle with a deeply waisted neck, broad and flat lip, one side inscribed in austere official script with an Imperial poem, the verso decorated with a placid lotus pond to echo the theme of the poem; the incised details heightened in pale blue.2 3/8in (6cm) high注脚Provenance:Dr. Dean EdellAshkenazie & Co., San FranciscoSotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 26 March 1982Bob Stevens CollectionPublished:Christopher Randall, The Wildness Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Dr. Edell Collection, 2018, no. 124