White and green enameled porcelain snuffbox with bird design, China, late 19th - early 20th century The pale green enameled cookie with more sustained spots with molded decoration in relief of a bird posed on a leafy branch on one side; on the reverse, an inscription: 好鸟枝头亦朋友 - hao niao zhi tou yi peng you translating as "Birds posed on branches are my reading companions". It stands on an oval foot incised with an apocryphal signature of Chen Guozhi. Height: 6 cm