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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM A PARKER JR.
726
AN INSIDE PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Ma Shaoxuan
Of upright form with a flat lip and supported by an oval foot rim, the
interior painted to one side with flowers in a vase alongside a Taihu
stone and penjing inscribed Fugui pingan (peace and prosperity),
reversed by a thirty-two character poem in regular script, signed Ma
Shaoxuan with a painted seal.
2 5/8in (6.6cm) high

$6,000 - 8,000
馬少宣作玻璃內畫「富貴平安」圖鼻煙壺 《馬少宣》款

Provenance:
William A Parker Jr.
Erik Hancock, by repute (according to label)

Published:
Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p. 136-137, no 339

Although this bottle is undated, Hugh Moss suggests a circa 1910 726 (two views)
period of execution. A similar bottle by Ma Shaoxuan dated 1905,
formerly in the collection of Madame Chao Chang Huaitung (1910-
2002) was sold at Sotheby’s 23 March 2004, lot 304.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM A PARKER JR.
727
AN INSIDE PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Ye Family, 1919
Of upright form, with raised cut panels on each of the four sides,
supported by an oval foot rim surrounding a convex foot, the interior
painted with figures in an interior setting surrounding a qin, reversed
by a garden scene with a male figure in a tree, inscribed wuwu (1919)
Duanyang, Ye Zhongsan followed by a painted seal.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000

戊午年（1919年） 葉氏家族（杏林齋）作玻璃內畫聊齋人物故事圖
鼻煙壺

款識
戊午端陽葉仲三
727 (two views)
Provenance:
William A Parker Jr.

Both compositions on this bottle refer to Pu Songling’s Liaozhai Zhiyi
(Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio), a collection of nearly 500 mostly
supernatural tales written in classical Chinese during the early Qing
Dynasty. The figures with a qin references the story Huan Niang (Lady
Zhao Huan) and the figures in the exterior setting alludes to the story of
Qiao Niang.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM A PARKER JR.
728
A WHITE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE
19th century
Of squared baluster form supported by a flat rectangular foot rim, with
pendant plantain leaves at the neck and stylized ruyi heads at the foot,
with lion mask and attenuated ring handles on the sides.
2in (5cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500

十九世紀 白玉雕鋪首耳壺式鼻煙壺

Provenance: 728
William A Parker Jr.
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