Lot Essay
The poem on the reverse is a famous Tang dynasty verse concerning the transitory nature of life.
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SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, DATED CHRYSANTHEMUM MONTH, BINGSHEN YEAR (1896), WITH ONE SEAL: SHAO
Details
A MINIATURE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE
Signed Ma Shaoxuan, dated Chrysanthemum month, bingshen year (1896), with one seal: Shao
Of rounded-rectangular form, painted with a scene of two scholars observing the sun, a chrysanthemum growing on the hill behind them, the reverse inscribed with a twenty-eight-character poem, stopper
1 5/8in. (4.2cm.) high
Signed Ma Shaoxuan, dated Chrysanthemum month, bingshen year (1896), with one seal: Shao
Of rounded-rectangular form, painted with a scene of two scholars observing the sun, a chrysanthemum growing on the hill behind them, the reverse inscribed with a twenty-eight-character poem, stopper
1 5/8in. (4.2cm.) 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 238.
Literature
B. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, p. 240, no. 861.