An inside-painted glass snuff bottle


Ma Family, 1914One side painted with four boys reading at a low table below an inscription reading nianshu tu (reading), the verso inscribed with a light-hearted poem depicting a sleepy early afternoon moment in a summer, dated jiayin (1914), inscribed Ma Shaoxuan with a painted red seal mark.2 3/8in (6.1cm) high
|甲寅年（1914年） 馬氏家族作 玻璃內畫「念書圖」鼻煙壺Provenance:Clare Lawrence Ltd., 1997Janne Holmes, Australia