An inside-painted glass snuff bottle

An inside-painted glass snuff bottle
Ma Shaoxuan, 1899
Painted in a spare style to the front with mist drifting over a river meandering between mountains with scattered trees, with three sailing boats in the background, and a canopied boat in the foreground seated with figures and being hauled by two men along the bank, the top inscribed as 'fang Nantian Laoren bifa' (in the spirit of Nan Tian (the sobriquet of Yun Shouping), the reverse inscribed with a Tang dynasty poem matching the depicted landscape, dated jihai chunri (spring of 1899), signed Ma Shaoxuan, with a red seal mark to each side.
2 7/16in (6.2cm) high