Description: A Chinese blue and white porcelain snuff bottle. Blue and white with underglaze red, painted in reserve of scholar resting under tree drinking tea with attendants scene. With inscriptions to the side. Slightly tapered cylindrical form, with elongated neck, on round foot, with Ruyi mark in underglaze blue on the bottom, no stopper. Old chips along the mouth rim. 3 7/16". Provenance: From the collection of Sara Janet Shaw, MD.