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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTOR
(LOTS 667-681 INCLUSIVE)

重要亞洲私人藏家珍藏 （拍品第667至681號）

W667 667 (two views)

AN INSIDE-PAINTED AGATE SNUFF BOTTLE PROVENANCE:
SIGNED WANG XISAN (1938 - )
Arts of China, purchased December 1984.
王習三作玻璃內畫雪景鼻煙壺 Bonhams San Francisco, 13 December 2010, lot 5060.
Property of an important private Asian collector.
The bottle is decorated to one side with a continuous scene depicting a
waterfall and a hut below snow-topped pine trees in a mountainous wintry 來源： Arts of China, 購於1984年12月
landscape. The bottle is signed with the artist’s name and one seal. The stone
is of a translucent smoky tone. 美國舊金山寶龍，2010年12月13日，拍品5060號

2¡ in. (6 cm.) high

£2,000-3,000 $3,100-4,500
€2,800-4,100

W668 668 (two views)

AN INSIDE-PAINTED ‘LANDSCAPE’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE PROVENANCE:
SIGNED MA SHAOXIAN, DATED AUTUMN OF JIAXU YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 1935 Christie’s South Kensington, 16 May 2012, Lot 779 (one of eleven).
Property of an important private Asian collector.
1935年 馬邵先作玻璃內畫山水紋鼻煙壺
來源：倫敦佳士得南肯辛頓，2012年5月16日，拍品779
The bottle is painted with a continuous scene depicting pavilions amongst 號（其中之一）
willows and wutong trees in a mountainous river landscape. It is inscribed with
the date, artist’s name and a seal.

2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high $6,100-9,100 Ma Shaoxian, the nephew of the renowned inside-painted snuf bottle artist
£4,000-6,000 €5,500-8,100 Ma Shaoxuan, likely worked with his uncle in the family workshop producing
bottles to be sold with his uncle’s signature. From around 1899 to 1932,
Shaoxian only sporadically signed his own name. Upon the retirement of his
uncle, Shaoxian used his own signature.

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