A MINIATURE INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLEMa Shaoxuan Signed and dated dingyou year, corresponding to 1897 Ofpressed rectangular shape with a short cylindrical neck, finely painted on one side with a flower seller releasing a pole suspending two flower baskets from his shoulders, his straw hat hung at one end, beneath an inscription 'Xijian Tu ' (picture of resting the shoulders), the reverse with a twenty-eight-character poem preceded by the date and followed by the signature and seal, Xuan ; stopper. 1 3/8in (3.4cm) high 1897年 馬少宣 水晶内畫息肩圖配詩文微型鼻煙壺 Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 20 April 1982, lot 196 Hugh M. Moss Ltd. The J & J Collection Christie's New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from The J & J Collection, Part III, 29 March 2006, lot 31 Literature: Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection , Vol. 2, New York, 1993, no 422 Snuff Bottles Aus China Sammlung J & J , 1996-1997, p. 21, fig. b The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection: An Exhibition at the Percival David Foundation , 1997, p. 21, fig. b The Miniature World — An Exhibition of Snuff Bottles from the J & J Collection , p. 69 Exhibited: Christie's, New York, 1993 Asian Civilisations Museum, Empress Place Building, Singapore, 1994 Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997 Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997 Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002 Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002 National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002 International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003 Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003 International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 117 來源： 倫敦蘇富比，1982年4月20日，拍品編號196 莫士撝古董行（Hugh Moss Ltd.） J&J珍藏 紐約佳士得，J&J中國鼻煙壺珍藏第三部分，2006年3月29日，拍品編號31 出版： 莫士撝（Hugh Moss）、Victoria Graham及曾嘉寶，《The Art of Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection》，卷二，紐約，1993年，圖錄編號422 蘇玫瑰（Rosemarry Scott），《The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle - The J & J Collection: An Exhibition at the Percival David Foundation》，倫敦，1997年，頁21，插圖b 蘇玫瑰（Rosemarry Scott），《小有洞天：J&J鼻煙壺珍藏》，台北，頁69 展覽： 紐約佳士得，1993年 新加坡皇后坊大廈亞洲文明博物館，1994年 法蘭克福格拉西博物館，1996-1997年 倫敦大維德中國藝術基金會，1997年 佛羅里達州Naples Museum of Art，2002年 俄勒岡州波特蘭美術館，2002年 台北國立歷史博物館，2002年 紐約軍械庫國際亞洲藝術展會，2003年 The subject 'Xi jian Tu' (picture of resting the shoulders) was visited several times by Ma but usually in a larger format. For other examples see, Ma Zengshan, Inside-Painted Bottle Artist Ma Shaoxuan (1867-1939) , Baltimore, 1997, p. 41, fig. 15; Hugh Moss (ed.) Chinese Snuff Bottles , Number Two, pp. 47-49, fig. 17 and later sold at Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1984, lot 301. The poem to the reverse wasposed by Liu Yuxi and entitled 'Revisiting the Xuandu Daoist Monastery'.