Bottle ID: 783

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LIU SHOUBEN, GLASS, PORTRAIT OF MA SHAOXUAN, INSCRIPTION

Date: 2007

Height: 65 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of flattened, rectangular form with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck and with an oval footrim, painted on the inside using ink with on one main side, a half-length portrait of the famous inside painted artist Ma Shaoxuan, the reverse with a lengthy inscription about the artist preceded by the date and signed Liu Shouben with one red seal.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 722

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 21, 2021, Lot 471 
From the Collection of Manfred Arnold, New York 
Commissioned from the artist on March 12, 2007 with the assistance of Y.F. Yang, Hong Kong

Exhibited:

ICSBS Convention, New York, November 5 – 9, 2013, no. 128

 

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