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219 PROVENANCE:
AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED MA SHAOXIAN, DATED TO THE YIHAI YEAR (1935) Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1994.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1684.
One side is decorated with two wrestling black huan below a three-
character inscription, shuang huan tu, and the reverse has a lengthy Ma Shaoxian appears to have painted this subject throughout his career.
poetic inscription followed by the artist’s signature, Ma Shaoxian, the This example is one of the later ones, and exhibits more attention to the
date, and a seal, Shao. fowered ground than earlier versions. For an example of the same subject
2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) high, pink tourmaline stopper painted in 1904 see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 4, Part 2, Hong
$3,000-5,000 Kong, 2000, pp. 490-491, no. 626. An example from 1914 is illustrated by
Dennis Low in More Treasures from the Sanctum of Enlightened Respect,
乙亥年（1935） 馬紹先作玻璃內畫「雙歡」圖詩文鼻煙壺 Hong Kong, 2002, p. 360, no. 325.

For a discussion of the artist, who was the nephew of Ma Shaoxuan, see
the note to lot 212.

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TWO ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLES
1750-1860

The frst has a tapering body carved with eight facets, the second of
fattened, globular form.
2¿ and 2Ω in. (5.5 and 6.3 cm.) high, mother-of-pearl stoppers (2)

$1,400-1,800

PROVENANCE:

Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, nos. 3638
and 9 respectively.

1750-1860年 水晶光素鼻煙壺兩件

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