TWO INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES20th century
The first painted to one side with a scene of two boys with fighting crickets while a third watches and holds a cricket cage, the other side dated jisi (1929), inscribed with a poem by the Song dynasty poet Cai Que, signed Ma Shaoxian with one painted seal reading Shaoxian; the second with one side of the interior painted with the immortal Liu Hai playfully teasing his three-legged toad, the other side dated yisi (1905) and inscribed with a poem about the immortal, signed Ma Shaoxuan with one painted seal reading Shaoxuan.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high, the taller (２).注脚Provenance:
The first:
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Louis E. Wolferz
Sotheby's, New York, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles, from the Mei Ling Collection, 15 March 1984, lot 330
The second:
Alice B. McReynolds Collection
Sotheby's, Los Angeles, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the collection of Alice B McReynolds, 31 October 1984, lot 178