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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE It is widely accepted that Ma Guangjia is the zi or given-name for
Ma Shaoxuan Ma Shaoxuan, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang,
Signed Ma Guangjia and seals Shao Xuan and dated guihai year, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch
corresponding to 1923 Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2, Inside Painted, pp. 373-375, no. 578.
Painted with a riverscape showing three figures in a boat, pavilions and Normally the given name appears in seal form and the name Ma
trees, the reverse with a twenty-seven-character inscription, with the Shaoxuan in regular script and seal form. Unexpectedly in our
seals Shao and Xuan, made for the Yun Ting (Cloud Pavilion); stopper. example, the inscription reads “Shaoxuan di (younger brother) Ma
2 1/4in (5.8cm) high Guangjia” “少宣弟馬光甲” followed by two painted seals reading
“Shao” and “Xuan”. This might suggest the hand of two artists at work,
$1,500 - 2,500 with Ma Guangjia being the younger brother or male relative of Ma
Shaoxuan.
癸亥年（1923） 馬少宣 玻璃内畫煙雨泛舟圖物鼻煙壺 《少宣弟馬光
甲》款 Another similar Ma Shaoxuan bottle, of an earlier date, with figures on
a boat in a rocky landscape sold at Christie’s New York, The Ruth and
Provenance: Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part IV, 15 March
Dr. and Mrs. Louis E. Wolferz 2017, lot 370.
Sotheby’s, New York, The Dr. and Mrs. Louis E. Wolferz Collection, 26
February 1983, lot 221 For other bottles with similar mountain lakeside views, see Humphrey
K.F. Hui and Christopher C.H. Sin, An Imperial Qing Tradition, An
Exhibited: Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collections of Humphrey
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 K.F. Hui and Christopher C.H. Sin, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 191, no.
November 2013, no.19 226; and Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of
Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4,
Part 2, Inside Painted, pp. 378-380, no. 580; and Humphrey K.F. Hui,
Lai Suk Yee and Peter Y.K. Lam, Inkplay in Microcosm, Inside-painted
Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Humphrey K.F. Hui Collection, Art Museum,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002, no’s. 33 and 34.
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