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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, DATED JIAWU (1894)
The fattened bottle is painted on one side with a lady holding a peony seated at a desk
set with an ink stone, water pot, books and brushes, all below an inscription and a red seal,
and on the reverse with a fve-line inscription describing the scene and a red seal.
2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high, jadeite stopper
$8,000-10,000
PROVENANCE
De Lisle Collection, Auckland, New Zealand.
Robert Hall, London, 1998.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2725.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Ma Shaoxuan (1867-1939) was one of the most technically accomplished artists of the
Beijing School of snuf-bottle painting. Founded by Zhou Leyuan, The Beijing School
included other leading artists such as Ding Erzhong, Ye Zhongsan and Zi Yizi. The present
bottle is particularly special because it was painted in 1894, the frst year from which
works by him have survived (although he is known to have painted earlier). It is one of only
a handful of known bottles the artist created in this year. Another bottle painted in this
same year and from the Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuf Bottles
was sold at Christie’s, New York, 13 September 2017, lot 295.
甲午年(1894) 馬少宣作玻璃內畫仕女圖詩文鼻煙壺

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