AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE

PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Details

AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE
SIGNED MA SHAOXUN AND DATED WINTER OF DINGSI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1917

Of rounded rectangular shape, unusually painted with a black cat with white belly, paws and cheeks and her three kittens, each variously colored, the reverse with peony or roses rising from rockwork, stopper

Provenance

Blucher Collection

Literature

Hugh Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, 1971, p.137, p. 341

Lot Essay

This appears to be a rare depiction for Ma Shaoxun, but is presumably connected in some way to the more usual depiction of fighting cats, (sometimes called Siberian tigers or badgers). For an example, see Hugh Moss, Ibid., p. 137, no.342