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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Ma Family, dated bingshen year by inscription Ma Family, dated bingwu year by inscription
The rounded rectangular bottle with a cylindrical neck, slightly convex One side of the rounded rectangular bottle painted with three boys
lip and spreading oval foot ring, one side of the interior painted in at play beneath an inscribed title Baizi Tu (Illustration of One Hundred
muted colors with a scholar reading in his retreat with an attendant, Boys), the other with a dedicatory inscription to the brothers Jing Rui,
the small cottage shaded by a large pine in the light of a full moon, dated bingwu zhong xia (mid-summer bingwu), bearing the signature
the reverse inscribed with an excerpt from Qiusheng Fu (Rhapsody Ma Shaoxuan, followed with a red seal reading Shaoxuan.
on the Sounds of Autumn), dated bingshen, bearing a signature 2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
reading Ma Shaoxuan with two seals.
2 3/16in (5.6cm) high $2,500 - 3,500
$2,000 - 3,000 馬氏家族作 玻璃內畫「百子圖」鼻煙壺 《丙午仲夏 馬少宣》款

馬氏家族作 水晶內畫燈畔夜讀圖鼻煙壺 《丙申馬少宣》款

Provenance
Chinese Arts & Crafts (HK) Ltd., 3 November 1996

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