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182 Y The poem on the back reads:
An inside-painted glass snuff bottle
Ma Shaoxuan, cyclically dated dingsi year (AD1917) 青山綠水幾人家，
Of flattened rectangular form, finely painted with a mountainous 碧蘚蒼松石徑斜。
landscape with a solitary figure on a craft towards a retreat on the left, 偏是主翁歸未得，
the reverse with a poetic inscription followed by the artist’s signature and 等閒開盡一園花。
seal, coral stopper. 作於京師
5.8cm (2 1/3in) high (2).
£3,000 - 5,000 Which may be translated as:
HK$35,000 - 59,000 CNY28,000 - 47,000
‘Verdant hills and green waters with a few homes,
玻璃內畫山水圖鼻煙壺 Jade moss and dark green pines, a steep stone path.
馬少宣，1917年作 On the side here an old man returns without a catch,
waiting idly by until a garden can bloom.
Provenance: A European private collection and thence by descent Made in the Capital.’
來源：歐洲私人收藏，並由家族繼承下去
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