A CHINESE EXPORT REVERSE-PAINTED MIRROR PICTURE
CIRCA 1770
The bevelled plate painted with two European ladies leaning on a gnarled tree-trunk and a girl emerging from a curtained doorway, with woodland, a coast and pagoda beyond, in original mother-of-pearl and satinwood-inlaid zitan moulded frame with bronze handle, inscribed to the reverse with a Chinese character and in red chalk 'over bed'
36 5/8 x 26½ in. (93 x 67 cm.) overall
A CHINESE EXPORT REVERSE-PAINTED MIRROR PICTURE
CIRCA 1770
The bevelled plate painted with two European ladies leaning on a gnarled tree-trunk and a girl emerging from a curtained doorway, with woodland, a coast and pagoda beyond, in original mother-of-pearl and satinwood-inlaid zitan moulded frame with bronze handle, inscribed to the reverse with a Chinese character and in red chalk 'over bed'
36 5/8 x 26½ in. (93 x 67 cm.) overall
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