A Chinese Export Reverse-Glass Painting
CIRCA 1760
Height: 20" Width: 30"
Inventory Number 8523-11
Price
$38,000
Description
The rectangular landscape scene depicting a couple reciting poetry in front of a lake, with a child and pheasants; within a later giltwood frame.
Illustrated
See also a 'music' painting similar in style and composition, National Trust Collection, Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire.
Additional Information
Often as pairs, outdoor scenes with aristocratic Chinese couples playing music and reciting poetry in a natural environment are very common in Chinese reverse-glass painting. See T. Audric, Chinese Reverse Glass Painting 1720-1820, 2016, pp. 174–180, figs. 43–67, 102, 102 and 108.
See also a 'music' painting similar in style and composition, National Trust Collection, Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, inv. NT 452428.