The poem on the bottle can be translated as: in praise of the taking of snuff and its auspicious powers; and it also describes the beauty of the bottle.

Cf. two similar examples, one from the Edmund F. Dwyer Collection, illustrated by Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles of the Silica or Quartz Group, no.195, and another offered in our Rooms in Hong Kong, 3 May 1994, lot 983