FROM A WEST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL BOTTLE

細節
AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL BOTTLE
SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN

Delicately painted on one side with The Two Sisters seated on a cane sofa reading, and on the other with four lines of calligraphy, including a dedication to Xie Shan, minor foot bruise, stopper


來源
Gertrude Stewart Collection, 1965

拍品專文

For a similar depiction of this famous scene by Ma Shaoxuan see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, col.pl. 290; Lilla S. Perry, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Japan, 1960, col.pl. 138; and Soame Jenyns, Chinese Art III, 1982, no. 2018, for an example from the British Museum, London

Another similar bottle was sold Sotheby's London, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, April 24, 1989, lot 415

This scene depicting the two Qiao sisters, Daqiao and Erqiao, is taken from San Guo Yan Yi (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms). For further discussion of this subject see an article by Gayle Gray Laver Lochere, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Source of Snuff Bottle Subjects", The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Journal, Spring, 1988, pp. 12-13