A CHINESE-EXPORT REVERSE-PAINTING-ON-GLASS
LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE GILTWOOD FRAME MID-19TH CENTURY
Depicting a gentleman seated in a rustic chair before a table with a lady holding a flower accompanied by a young boy, a female servant beside a tree, beside a lake in a mountainous landscape, within a scrolling foliage frame with mirrored border plates, framed by gothic columns, the silvering lacking and replaced by paper painted to give a shadow effect
48½ x 52 in. (123 x 132 cm.)
A CHINESE-EXPORT REVERSE-PAINTING-ON-GLASS
LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE GILTWOOD FRAME MID-19TH CENTURY
Depicting a gentleman seated in a rustic chair before a table with a lady holding a flower accompanied by a young boy, a female servant beside a tree, beside a lake in a mountainous landscape, within a scrolling foliage frame with mirrored border plates, framed by gothic columns, the silvering lacking and replaced by paper painted to give a shadow effect
48½ x 52 in. (123 x 132 cm.)