AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLEMa Shaoxuan Signed and dated yisi year, corresponding to 1905 Of rounded rectangular shape, superbly painted on one side with a grouping of a miniature pine in a planter, a crackled-ware jar with peony, and mossy open work rock below the signature and seal Shaoxuan , the other side with four poetic inscriptions written in differing scripts, kaishu , lishu , xingshu and xiaozhuan ; stopper. 2 1/2in (6.3cm) high 1905年 馬少宣 玻璃内畫清供圖及四體詩文鼻煙壺 Provenance: Madame Chao Chang Huaitung Sotheby's, New York, The Madame Chao Chang Huaitung Collection, 23 March 2004, lot 304. Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., 23 September 2005 Exhibited: International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 112 來源： 張懷瞳女士(1910-2002)舊藏 紐約蘇富比，《張懷瞳女士珍藏》，2004年3月23日，拍品編號304 倫敦莫士撝古董行（Hugh Moss Ltd.），2007年11月 展覽： 國際中國鼻煙壺學會年會，紐約華爾道夫酒店，2013年11月5日至9日，展品編號112 Madame Chao Chang Huaitung (1910-2002) was the third daughter of Marshal Zhang Zuolin, and half-sister to the Marshal's oldest son, Zhang Xueliang, later known as the Young Marshal, who later controlled Manchuria and was involved in a plot to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek. The same four inscriptions written in regular, draft, clerical and seal scripts is repeated on another Ma bottle dated to 1910, with an assemblage of 'torn' documents on the opposite side and is illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, Treasury, Vol. 4, Part 2 , pp. 411-413, no. 594 and discussed at length. It is also illustrated by Ma Zengshan, Inside-Painted Snuff Bottle Artist Ma Shaoxuan (1867-1939) , Baltimore, 1997, pp. 80-82, figs. 80 and 81. Another superb undated example with the same four poetic inscriptions to one side and two paintings and two calligraphic works to the other was sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 'A Private Collection of Scholarly and Imperial Works of Art', 4 April 2012, lot 3057.