SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, BEIJING, DATED MID-AUTUMN OF THE DINGYOU YEAR (1897); THE BOTTLE, 1760-1897

細節

**A MINIATURE INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, BEIJING, DATED MID-AUTUMN OF THE DINGYOU YEAR (1897); THE BOTTLE, 1760-1897
Of flat form with an oval lip and recessed foot, finely painted on one side with a flower seller, his hat hung on the end of a bamboo pole in front of him, from which two flower baskets are suspended, with an inscription Xijian tu, 'picture of resting the shoulders', the reverse with a poem preceded by 'Mid-autumn of the dingyou year' and followed by the signature Ma Shaoxuan, with the seal Xuan, coral stopper
1 3/8 in. (3.4 cm.) high

來源

Sotheby's London, 20 April 1982, lot 196
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.

出版

Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, vol. 2, no. 422
Snuff Bottles Aus China Sammlung J & J, 1996-1997, p. 21, fig. b
The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection and Exhibition at the Percival David Foundation, 1997, p. 21, fig. b
The Miniature World - An Exhibition of Snuff Bottles from the J & J Collection, p. 69

展覽

Christie's New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003

注意事項

Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

拍品專文

Ma Shaoxuan was one of the more prolific painters of miniature bottles. He also painted this subject of the flower-seller resting his shoulders on several other occasions, but usually in flattened pear-shaped bottles of the more standard size range for snuff bottles. A similar bottle by Ma, dated 1899, was sold at Sotheby's London, 2 July 1984, lot 301; and another is illustrated in Chinese Snuff Bottles No. 2, no. 17. For another example of the same subject in a somewhat similarly shaped bottle, see Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 1982, lot 269, also from the Wolferz Collection. Cf. also Ma Zengshan, Inside-Painted Snuff Bottle Artist Ma Shaoxuan (1867-1939), p. 79, fig. 77, and p. 41, fig. 15.

The poem on the reverse, entitled "Revisiting the Xuandu Daoist Monastery', was composed by Liu Yuxi, and reads as follows:

'In a garden measuring a hundred acres, half is overgrown by lichen.
The peach blossoms are completely gone, [giving way to] flowering weeds.
Where has the Daoist priest gone who used to tend the peach groves?
[I], the man named Liu [who visited this place] before, am now back [in the same spot].'