A finely inscribed teal glass snuff bottle18th centuryThe gracefully shaped bottle standing on an oval foot ring, with a cylindrical neck, flat lip, each main side with a conforming panel, framing a poem finely incise in clerical script, and heightened in gilt; the semi-transparent metal of stunning aquamarine blue color.2 1/4in (5.7cm) high注脚Provenance:Dr. Dean EdellRobert Kleiner Ltd., London, 2004Published:Christopher Randall, The Wildness Collection, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Dr. Edell Collection, 2018, no. 16The incised poem is by the Tang dynasty poet and politician Liu Changqing. The title of the poem can be translated as 'Visiting the Priest Chang Shan's Retreat in Nanxi'. The poem can be translated approximately as follows: Walking along a little pathI find a footprint on the mossThe white clouds drifting low over the peaceful sandbankThe sweet spring grass surrounding a closed doorThe pine grown greener after the rainFollowing the mountain path I traced the water source of the brookAmongst the flowers along the river, and taken by the zen mind [I would] lose any words when facing [priest Chang Shan]