AN UNUSUAL MINIATURE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE

SIGNED BY MA SHAOXUAN, DATED WUXU YEAR (1898), WITH ONE SEAL: SHAO

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AN UNUSUAL MINIATURE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE
Signed by Ma Shaoxuan, dated wuxu year (1898), with one seal: Shao
Of rounded-rectangular form, inside-painted with a solitary scholar in a boat in a river landscape, the reverse with a twenty-character poetic inscription, stopper
1 9/16in. (4cm.) high

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob C. Stevens, Part III, 25 June 1982, lot 239.

Literature

B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, p. 240, no 858.

Lot Essay

The poem on the reverse refers to natural beauty in the eyes of a wayfarer.

For a similarly small bottle with the same subject, also from the Bob Stevens Collection, see B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 855.

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