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AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL ‘QIAO SISTERS’ SNUFF BOTTLE
Ma Shaoxuan
One side of the interior painted with a scene of the ‘Two Qiao Sisters’
seated on a bench with cracked-ice railings, reading a book, with
one seal reading Ma Guangjia yin, the other side inscribed with a
dedication to Peifu and a poem referencing the sisters, followed with a
signature reading Ma Shaoxuan and a seal reading Shaoxuan.
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high
US$10,000 - 15,000
馬少宣 水晶內畫二喬觀書鼻煙壺
A similar bottle from the Bloch collection was sold at Sotheby’s, Hong
Kong, 1 June 2015, lot 105 and illustrated in Hugh Moss, Victor
Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The
Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 4, Hong Kong, 2000, no. 578.
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