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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A RARE INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL DOUBLE SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, WITH ONE SEAL SHAOXUAN, C. 1900
Details
A RARE INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL DOUBLE SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, WITH ONE SEAL SHAOXUAN, C. 1900
The two joined bottles of rectangular section, one bottle painted with a figure seated on a high promontory beneath a pine tree contemplating a bird in flight in the distance, a six-character inscription above, the reverse with a twenty-eight-character poetic inscription, the other bottle painted with a cicada clinging to a willow branch, the reverse with a twenty-four-character poetic inscription followed by the signature of the artist, two stoppers
2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm.) high
SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, WITH ONE SEAL SHAOXUAN, C. 1900
The two joined bottles of rectangular section, one bottle painted with a figure seated on a high promontory beneath a pine tree contemplating a bird in flight in the distance, a six-character inscription above, the reverse with a twenty-eight-character poetic inscription, the other bottle painted with a cicada clinging to a willow branch, the reverse with a twenty-four-character poetic inscription followed by the signature of the artist, two stoppers
2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Bob C. Stevens Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 25 June 1982, lot 231.
Literature
B. C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, Tokyo and New York, 1980, no. 863.