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Property from the Barbara and Marvin Dicker Collection of Snuff Bottles
Lot 7169
An inside-painted glass snuff bottle Ma Shaoxian, 1934
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$1,750 inc. premium
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Ma Shaoxian, 1934
The rounded rectangular bottle with a spreading neck, flat lip, splayed oval foot ring, painted to the front with a figure under a willow on a bank in conversation with a fisherman seated in a boat, with mountains in far distance, the reverse inscribed with a four-line poem, dated jiashu (1934), signed Ma Shaoxian, followed with a red seal mark reading shao.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
The rounded rectangular bottle with a spreading neck, flat lip, splayed oval foot ring, painted to the front with a figure under a willow on a bank in conversation with a fisherman seated in a boat, with mountains in far distance, the reverse inscribed with a four-line poem, dated jiashu (1934), signed Ma Shaoxian, followed with a red seal mark reading shao.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Sotheby's, New York, 27 October 1986, sale 5501, lot 225
Exhibited:
New Orleans Museum of Art, October 1980














