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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE For other coastal landscape glass bottles, see two both dated 1897,
Ma Shaoxuan one sold at Christie’, New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection
Dated guimao year, corresponding to 1903 of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Part IV, lot 370 and the other at Bonhams,
Of rounded rectangular shape, painted on one main face with a rather Hong Kong, 25 May 2011, lot 37. See also Ma Zhengshan Inside-
cursory lake landscape with fenced huts and trees beneath a title and Painted Snuff Bottle Artist, Ma Shaoxuan (1867-1939), Baltimore,
seal, the reverse side with a thirty-two character inscription preceded 1997, p. 48, fig. 31.
by the date and followed by the signature and seal Shaoxuan; stopper.
2 1/2in (6.2cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000
癸卯年(1903) 馬少宣 玻璃內畫春江碧水泛舟圖鼻煙壺
Provenance:
Clare Chu, Los Angeles
La Collection du Commandeur, Laurence Souksi, 27 April 2007
Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 129
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