Lot Essay
The poem on the reverse describes the melancholy scene of visiting a graveyard on a drizzly spring day.
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SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, DATED WINTER, GENGXU YEAR (1910), AFTER SHIGU (WANG HUI) SHAOXUAN BRUSH-MODE, WITH ONE SEAL: YIN (SEAL)
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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE
Signed Ma Shaoxuan, dated winter, gengxu year (1910), after Shigu (Wang Hui) Shaoxuan brush-mode, with one seal: Yin (Seal)
Of rounded-rectangular shape, painted on one side with river scene with two men towing a barge, the reverse finely inscribed with a thirty-two character Tang dynasty poem alluding to the scene, stopper
2 3/8in. (5.8cm.) high
Signed Ma Shaoxuan, dated winter, gengxu year (1910), after Shigu (Wang Hui) Shaoxuan brush-mode, with one seal: Yin (Seal)
Of rounded-rectangular shape, painted on one side with river scene with two men towing a barge, the reverse finely inscribed with a thirty-two character Tang dynasty poem alluding to the scene, stopper
2 3/8in. (5.8cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Janos Szekeres, 27 October 1986, lot 228.