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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Ma Shaoxuan
Signed and dated Wuxu year, corresponding to 1898
Of rounded rectangular shape, painted on one main face with a
kingfisher delicately balanced on the stem of a lotus pad amidst
lightly-painted lotus flowers and other pads with two fish below and
a title with seal above, the reverse with a well-written forty-character
inscription, after the Song dynasty poet Zhou Dunyi, followed by the
date, signature and a negative-script seal Xuan; stopper.
2 3/8in (6cm) high

$6,000 - 8,000

戊戌年（1898） 馬少宣 玻璃内畫荷塘圖及周敦頤《愛蓮說》摘文鼻
煙壺

Provenance:
Susan Hacker
Robert Kleiner, The Susan Hacker Collection, 30 March 2005

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 108

For another 1898 dated crystal bottle bottle painted with the identical
subject but in a different palette and with perhaps, rather more
loosely-handled brush work and calligraphy, and with a near identical
inscription to the reverse, see Sotheby’s, Paris, ‘An Aristocratic French
Collection’, 12 June 2018, lot 110.

Another with the identical scene was illustrated by Susan Page, ICSBS
Journal, Spring, 2020, (inside front cover), and another of flattened
pear shape from the Quentin Loh Sze On Collection was illustrated by
Vanessa F. Holden, Chinese Snuff Bottles, NUS Museums, Singapore,
2002, p. 70, no. 286.

See also another Ma crystal bottle (dated 1904) from the Elsa
Glickman Collection sold at Bonhams, New York, 11 November 2020,
lot 15, with a scene of mandarin ducks and lotus on one side and the
same poetic inscription by the Song poet Zhou Dunyi on the other.

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