AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE Ma Shaoxuan, 1899AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLEMa Shaoxuan, 1899 The rectangular bottle raised on an oval footrim, its sloping shoulders supporting a cylindrical neck beneath a flat lip; one side painted with a flower peddler with his body leaning forward, and his crossed arms resting on a wooden pole suspending a basket on either side, all below a poetic inscription, carrying a signature reading Shaoxuan, followed by a square seal cartouche; the reverse with a thirty-eight character poem preceded by the date jihai zhongchun (second month of 1899), signed Ma Shaoxuan and with one oval seal cartouche.2 1/2in (6.4cm) high己亥年 (1899) 馬少宣 水晶内畫息肩圖鼻煙壺一件《馬少宣》款Provenance:Joan and Ted Dorf Collection, no. 16