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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Ma Shaoxian, 1929
Of rounded rectangular shape surmounted by a short tubular neck
with a flat lip, supported on a slightly splayed oval foot ring, one side
painted with a scene of two boys fighting crickets while a third watches
and holds a cricket cage, the other side dated jisi (1929), inscribed
with a poem by the Song dynasty poet Cai Que, signed Ma Shaoxian
with one painted seal reading Shaoxian.
2 1/4in (5.6cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000

己巳年（1929年）馬紹先作 玻璃内畫戲蟋蟀圖鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Louis E. Wolferz
Sotheby’s, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, from the Mei
Ling Collection, 15 March 1984, lot 330

來源：
Louis E. Wolferz 醫生伉儷故藏
紐約蘇富比，1984年3月15日，拍品編號330

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