清末 馬少宣作水晶內畫折扇圖鼻煙壺 《馬少宣》款

E.L. Holmes 夫人收藏
倫敦佳士得1974年4月5日，編號7
Hugh Moss
J & J 收藏
紐約佳士得2006年3月29日，編號60

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紐約佳士得，1993年
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《Asian Art》，2003年3月，頁18

The bottle has some tiny nibbles to the lip, one area of polished repair and one chip on the outer foot rim. There are also some natural icy flaws as well as abrasions and scratches to the surface from use. The painting has some minor fading to the cream paint used for the fan, most apparent on the side with the fish.
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Only one other bottle of this unusual shape painted by Ma Shaoxuan is known, illustrated in Geng Baochang and Zhao Binghua 1992, no. 343. Its design is almost identical, although the positioning of the dragonfly has changed, and the bottle is slightly narrower. There can be no doubt that these two snuff bottles were made specifically to be painted with this subject matter.

Ma has successfully achieved a comfortable shape for the bottle, while giving the impression that the fan is open so as to reveal the design without distortion. This is one of Ma's most effective designs and more impressive bottles. The visual game of the fan inside a fan-shape and of Ma appearing to paint not merely the bottle but the fan itself, upon which he signs, is delightful, as is the use of the stopper as the terminal point of the fan itself, the hub, from which the frame with its bones radiates.