AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLEMa Shaoxuan Signed and dated dingwei year, corresponding to 1907, Beijing One main face painted with Wang Xiang seated on an iced-over river fishing for carp beneath, a descriptive poem above which includes the signature and seal, yin , the reverse side painted with a grasshopper or cricket on a cabbage leaf with a radish to one side and a grouping of narcissus in the background below another inscription which includes the date and seal, Shaoxuan ; stopper. 2 3/8in (6.1cm) high 1907年 馬少宣 玻璃内畫王祥孝母鼻煙壺 北京 Provenance: Jack Rose Sotheby's London, The Jack Rose Collection, 6 June 1988, lot 284 White Wings Collection Robert Kleiner, The White Wings Collection, 8 January 1999 Literature: ICSBS Journal , Autumn, 1988, p. 26, fig. 7 Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles - The White Wings Collection , Hong Kong, 1997, p. 278, no. 194 Exhibited: International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 80 來源： Jack Rose舊藏 倫敦蘇富比，Jack Rose珍藏，1988年6月6日，拍品編號284 The White Wings珍藏 Robert Kleiner繼承The White Wings珍藏並於1999年1月8日轉手予現藏家 出版： 《國際中國鼻煙壺學會學術期刊》1988年秋，頁26，插圖7 Robert Kleiner, 《Chinese Snuff Bottles - The White Wings Collection》, 香港, 1997年, 頁278, 圖錄編號194 展覽： 國際中國鼻煙壺學會展會，紐約華爾道夫酒店，2013年11月5日至9日，展品編號80 See Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2, Inside Painted , pp. 418-419, no. 597 for a bottle dated 1899 with a near identical subject on a differently shaped crystal example. But for the placement of the inscription above the figure of Wang Xiang, the inscription on one side is near identical. The authors describe the bottle as one of Ma's great early masterpieces. The subject was painted as early as 1894, and he appears to have painted at least three in 1898. Two others are recorded for 1904. For a full description of 'filial duties' as exemplified by Wang Xiang, see Michael C. Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese Snuff Bottles , Baltimore, 2009, pp. 276-277, no. 123 where a porcelain example depicting such duties and including an image of Wang Xiang is illustrated and discussed. See , Hong Kong, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part I, 28 May 2010, lot 24 for the crystal example listed above.