A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT REVERSE-PAINTED MIRRORS

The reverse painted pheasant subjects of the present pair of of mirrors relate closely to those seen in the upper part of two tall pier glasses from the yellow and red drawing rooms of the Chinese pavilion at the royal palace of Drottningholm in Stockholm, Sweden. They, too, present a silver pheasant and a red pheasant, respectively, among flowering peonies and blue and grey colored rocks (T. Audric, Chinese Reverse Glass Painting, 1720-1820, Thesis, 2020, pp. 34-35). The similarities of the figures in the present lot and the mirrors at Drottningholm suggest they may have originated in the same Chinese workshop.