Snuff Bottles from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection Part I
Snuff Bottles from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection Part I
Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection 雪月藏中國鼻煙壺
An inside-painted glass 'Guanyin' snuff bottle By Ma Shaoxian, dated bingwu year, corresponding to 1906 | 丙午（1906年） 馬紹先作玻璃內畫觀音菩薩像鼻煙壺
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Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection
An inside-painted glass 'Guanyin' snuff bottle
By Ma Shaoxian, dated bingwu year, corresponding to 1906
雪月藏中國鼻煙壺
丙午（1906年） 馬紹先作玻璃內畫觀音菩薩像鼻煙壺
with tourmaline stopper, Ma Shaoxuan mark
題識：吳門仇氏薰沐拜寫。丙午馬少宣。「少宣」印。
5.8 cm
Robert Kleiner, 'The Tuyet Nguyet Collection of Snuff Bottles and Saucers', Arts of Asia, November-December 1998, no. 65.
Robert Kleiner，〈The Tuyet Nguyet Collection of Snuff Bottles and Saucers〉，《Arts of Asia》，1998年11/12月，編號 65
Although signed with his uncle Ma Shaoxuan's name, close comparison with other known bottles by Ma Shaoxian clearly reveals it to be his work. See for example, another inside-painted glass bottle dated to 1904, with very similar composition of Guanyin, originally in the collection of Bob Stevens, illustrated in Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 212, and sold at Sotheby's Honolulu, 7th November 1981, lot 212 and again in these rooms, 5th May 1994, lot 1579.