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A MINIATURE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Exhibited:
Attributed to Ma Shaoxuan International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
Signed and dated bingshen year, corresponding to 1896 November 2013, no. 37
Decorated on one main face with Lui Hai and the magical
three-legged toad, and with a twenty-eight-character poetic inscription For a hair-crystal example dated to the following year, see Bonhams
on the reverse preceded by the date and followed by the signature and New York, 13 March 2017, lot 1120. For another example attributed
seal, xuan; stopper. to the family of Ma but undated, see Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26 May
1 1/2in (4cm) high 2014, lot 1140.

$1,500 - 2,500
丙申年（1896） 傳馬少宣 玻璃内畫「劉海戯蟾」詩文微型鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Bob C. Stevens
Sotheby’s, Honolulu, The Bob C. Stevens Collection, 7 November
1981, lot 208
Eric Young Collection
Sotheby’s, London, The Eric Young Collection, 3 March 1987, lot 172

Literature:
Bob C. Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and
Tokyo, 1976, no’s 835 and 856
ICSBS Journal, March 1978, p. 24, no. 3
Hugh M. Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles, No. 4, p. 47, fig. 13

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