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8090 8091

8090 Property from Various Owners
An inside painted crystal bottle
Ye Xiaofeng (d. 1969) 8092
The pyramidal body with small shoulders rising to a tall cylindrical neck, An inside painted glass snuff bottle
flat rim and small mouth above a recessed rectangular foot, the bottle Ma Shaoxian, dated 1933
delicately painted on the interior with two attendants carrying snow Of flattened rectangular form, with a flat lip, tapering neck, and rounded
to two young boys making a snow Buddha under a tree near an open oval foot rim surrounding a concave foot, the interior painting with a
window, signed qing shi Ye Xiaofeng zuo, with one painted seal. continuous scene of battling warriors on horseback with a city wall in the
2 3/4in (6.8cm) high distance, inscribed “Ma Chao’s battle at Jiameng pass”, dated guiyou
$6,000 - 9,000 (1933) and signed Ma Shaoxian followed by a painted seal reading Shao.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
8091 $2,000 - 3,000
An inside painted agate snuff bottle
Liu Shouben “Ma Chao’s battle at Jiameng pass” is chapter sixty-five of Romance of
The globular bottle set with a cylindrical neck, concave rim and wide the Three Kingdoms. Occurring in the year 214, the battle pitted Liu Bei’s
mouth over a recessed oval foot ring, the interior painted with a proud forces defending against Zhang Lu. As painted on the bottle, the scene
lion standing on a precipice overlooking an elephant and young below, depicted shows Ma Chao, the general of Shu, dueling with Zhang Fei, in
signed ‘Shouben’. the foreground.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000

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