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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, BEIJING, DATED WUWU (1918)
The bottle is decorated on one side with a winter landscape of a scholar seated astride
a donkey and accompanied by his attendant below an inscription, and the reverse with a
calligraphic inscription referring to the scene, followed by a signature, Ma Shaoxuan, and
a red seal, ‘Shaoxuan’.
2¡ in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper
$1,500-2,000
PROVENANCE
Bernie Wald, New York.
Vanessa F. Holden Collection, New York, 1999.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2772.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection,
23-26 September 2008.
戊午年（1918） 馬少宣作玻璃内畫尋梅圖詩文鼻煙壺
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