Beschreibung:

THREE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLESThe first decorated with a scholar reading by candlelight beside an attendant in a hut beneath a pine tree, the reverse with a lengthy inscription, signed Ma Shaoxuan, dated 1899 and of the period, stopper and ivory spoon, 6cm (2 1/4in) high; the second with a pair of goldfish and a carp swimming in a pond, the reverse with a riverside scene, signed Zhou Leyuan, dated 1891 and of the period, tourmaline stopper, 7cm (3in) high; the third with a bird hovering above a floral shrub, the reverse signed Liu Baojun, dated 1903 and of the period, coral stopper inlaid with a pearl, 6.5cm (2 1/2in) high. (6).Footnotes1899年（己亥年） 馬少宣 玻璃內畫秋聲賦詩文鼻煙壺；1891（辛卯年） 周樂元 玻璃內畫荷塘游魚圖鼻煙壺；1903（癸卯年） 劉寶鈞 玻璃內畫花鳥圖鼻煙壺
The item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (Section 10). Ref.BCGDF13C
該批次中含有象牙的物品已根據《象牙法案》（章節10）註冊，Ref.BCGDF13C
Provenance: Sydney L. Moss Ltd., Hong Kong, November 1966 (the Ma Shaoxuan snuff bottle)
Hugh M. Moss Ltd., Hong Kong, March 1970 (the Zhou Leyuan and the Liu Baojun snuff bottles)
來源：香港古董商Sydney L.Moss Ltd.，1966年11月（馬少宣作）
香港古董商Hugh M. Moss Ltd.，1970年3月（周樂元作, 劉寶鈞作）
The inscription painted inside the snuff bottle sighed by Ma Shaoxuan is from Song dynasty poet and politician Ouyang Xiu's 歐陽修 (1007-1072) work 'Ode to the Sound of Autumn' (秋聲賦), which reads:
錄秋聲賦
童子曰：星月皎潔，明河在天，四無人聲，聲在樹間。
余曰：噫嘻，悲哉！此秋聲也，胡為乎來哉。
己亥臘月上浣。馬少宣
Which may be translated as:
'Transcribing the Ode to the Sound of Autumn：
The boy servant says: The stars and moon shine bright. The Milky Way is high up in the sky. There is no sound of human but that of the forest.
I sighs: How sad it is. It is the sound of autumn. Is autumn already here?'
The first half of the twelfth month of the year of Jihai
Compare the snuff bottle signed by Ma Shaoxuan with a similar inside-painted glass snuff bottle signed by the same artist, 1895-1920, which was sold at Bonhams New York, 21 November, lot 51. Compare the one signed by Zhou Leyuan with a similar inside-painted glass snuff bottle, signed by the same artist, 1892, which was sold at Bonhams New York, 21 November 2022, lot 5.