PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF KIM GREEN AN INCISED WHITE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE1900-1924, Jingyi Jushi Of flattened, rounded form with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck and with a neatly carved oval footrim, the glass inscribed and filled with black ink, on one main side with five scholars seated on rush mats, the reverse inscribed with a poem depicting the early spring scene in Jiangnan, and signed with one red seal, yin ; stopper. 2 1/4in (5.6cm) high 1900-1924年 靜逸居士(吳鍚九) 白料淺刻填墨五老圖帶詩文鼻煙壺 Provenance: Robert Kleiner, London, 25 March 2000 Kim Green (1958-2017) Collection, no. 60 來源： Robert Kleiner舊藏，倫敦，2000年3月25日 Kim Green (1958-2017)舊藏，藏品編號60 Jingyi Jushi, one of the hao of Wu Xijiu (also known as Wu Mengling) was a native of Tianjin. He was a famous glass engraver active in Beijing in the late Qing dynasty. For a similar bottle in yellow glass in the collection of Mary and George Bloch, see Moss, Graham and Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection , Vol. 5, Glass , Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 804-7, no. 1058, with a lengthy essay by Hugh Moss.