SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, DATED TO THE THIRD MONTH OF SPRING OF THE GUIMAO YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1903

Details

AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED MA SHAOXUAN, DATED TO THE THIRD MONTH OF SPRING OF THE GUIMAO YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1903
The bottle is painted on one side with a scene of a scholar seated in a mountainside retreat below a pine tree, with an attendant approaching from the exterior. The reverse is inscribed with an excerpt from "Ode to the Sound of Autumn," a work by the famous Song poet Ouyang Xiu.
2 3⁄8 in. (6 cm.) high, jadeite stopper

Provenance

N.C. Shen.
Edward Choate O'Dell.
Joseph Baruch Silver.
Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.

Literature

Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Joseph Baruch Silver, Jerusalem, 1987, p. 50, no. 87 and poster.
J. Ford, Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Edward Choate O'Dell Collection, Baltimore, 1982, no. 186.

Exhibited

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 1987.

Sale room notice

Please note, the snuff bottle noted in the literature from the Edward Choate O’Dell collection is a similar example, not the present lot.

請注意，出版欄所註Edward Choate O'Dell收藏之鼻煙壺實為相似例，並非次拍品。

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Lot Essay

A glass snuff bottle painted in the same year, 1903, with a calligraphic inscription on one side, but with the 'hundred antiques' theme on the other, was sold in Snuff Bottles from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection Part I, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 June 2021, lot 1018. For further discussion on the artist, see lot 810 in this sale.

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