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AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE Provenance
Ma Shaoxuan, 1898 Private Cincinnati Collection, 2014
One face of the interior painted with a katydid resting on the leaf of a
Chinese cabbage with a cluster of narcissus in the background, dated The four verses inscribed on one face of the present lot are inscribed
Guangxu wuxu xia siyue xiahuan (1898, summer, latter half of the on another bottle by Ma Shaoxuan illustrated in Hugh Moss, Victor
fourth month), signed and painted with one seal reading Shaoxuan, the Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The
other side inscribed with four poetic verses, each executed in regular, Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol.4, part II, Hong Kong, 2000,
running, clerical and archaic script. no. 594, and discussed on p.412.
2 5/8in (6.5cm) high

$7,000 - 9,000
1898年 馬少宣水晶內畫蟈蟈白菜圖鼻煙壺

落款
時在光緒戊戌夏四月下浣 馬少宣作於京師

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