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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE The portrait is based on a photograph of the artist taken in 1925
Liu Shouben when Ma was 59 years old. Another bottle by Liu Shouben graces the
Signed and dated dinghai year, corresponding to 2007 front and back cover of the well-regarded biography and study of the
Of rounded rectangular shape, one main face painted with a half- artist by Ma Zhengshan entitled ‘Inside-Painted Snuff Bottle Artist, Ma
length portrait of the famous inside-painting artist Ma Shaoxuan, the Shaoxuan (1867-1939), Baltimore, 1997.
reverse side with a lengthy inscription about the artist preceded by the
date and followed by the signature and seal; stopper.
2 1/2in (6.5cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000
丁亥年(2007) 劉守本 玻璃内畫馬少宣肖像鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Commissioned the bottle from the artist on 12 March 2007 through the
assistance of Y.F. Yang, Hong Kong

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 128.

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