An inside-painted rock crystal snuff bottle


Ma Family, dated bingshen year by inscriptionThe rounded rectangular bottle with a cylindrical neck, slightly convex lip and spreading oval foot ring, one side of the interior painted in muted colors with a scholar reading in his retreat with an attendant, the small cottage shaded by a large pine in the light of a full moon, the reverse inscribed with an excerpt from Qiusheng Fu (Rhapsody on the Sounds of Autumn), dated bingshen, bearing a signature reading Ma Shaoxuan with two seals. 2 3/16in (5.6cm) high
|馬氏家族作 水晶內畫燈畔夜讀圖鼻煙壺 《丙申馬少宣》款ProvenanceChinese Arts & Crafts (HK) Ltd., 3 November 1996