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           AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE              Literature:
           Ma Shaoxuan                                       Wang & Co., Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Richard F. Kuenkler
           Signed, circa 1900                                Collection, Toronto, 2007, p. 57, no. 61
           Of rounded rectangular shape, one main face painted with two felines
           (sometimes identified as badgers) playing together, beneath the title   See the footnote to Lot 429 in the present sale.
           Shuang huan tu, (Double Happiness painting) the other face with a
           thirty-two-character poem by Su Dongpo dedicated to first brother   See another example sold at Bonhams, New York, 13 November
           Xingsan in Beijing, followed by the signature and seal Shaoxuan;   2017, lot 8016 and another at Bonhams, Hong Kong, The Mary and
           stopper.                                          George Bloch Collection, Part V, 27 May 2012, lot 100 attributed to the
           2 3/8in (6.1cm) high                              family of Ma Shaoxuan.

           $3,500 - 5,500
           1900年前後 馬少宣 玻璃内畫「雙歡圖」配詩文鼻煙壺

           Provenance:
           Edward Choate O’Dell
           John G. Ford, Baltimore
           Richard F. Kuenkler, Thailand
           Wang & Co., Toronto, The Richard F. Kuenkler Collection, 2 October
           2007




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