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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE See Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, Treasury, Vol. 4,
Ma Shaoxian Part 2, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 490-491, no. 496, for another bottle by
Signed and dated xinchou year, corresponding to 1901 Ma Shaoxian and a discussion of his working relationship to his more
Of rounded rectangular shape, painted with a continuous mountainous famous Uncle Ma Shaoxuan. Ma Shaoxian was the son of his uncle’s
lake landscape with a figure pulling a boat along the lakeshore below youngest brother.
the inscription and seal Shaoxian, on one main face, and figures near
willow and buildings on a lakeside with a mountain backdrop; stopper. Ma Shaoxian’s first dated bottles are from 1899. He seems to
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high have only used his own name in bursts, sublimating his art to his
uncle’s signature the rest of the time. For two examples with similar
$2,500 - 3,500 landscapes but of later date and not as capably executed, see ibid.,
pp. 493-496, no’s 627-628.
辛丑年（1901） 馬少先 玻璃内畫山水人物鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Susan Hickmott
Robert C. Eldred, The Susan Hickmott Collection, 22 August 2003, lot
171

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 97

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