Saturday at Sotheby’s: Asian Art

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Lot 1551
  • 1551

AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE 20TH CENTURY

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • glass
of rounded rectangular form, painted with four boys seated at a kang table, gossiping over textbooks, the reverse with poetic inscription with cyclical date mark corresponding to 1914 and signed Ma Shaoxuan with one seal, stopper (2)

Provenance

Collection of Georgia Roode.
Clare Lawrence, Ltd., London, 1997.
Collection of J. Holmes, Australia.