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A Chinese Export Reverse-Glass PaintingCIRCA 1760 Height: 20" Width: 30" Inventory Number 8523-11 Price$38,000DescriptionThe rectangular landscape scene depicting a couple reciting poetry in front of a lake, with a child and pheasants; within a later giltwood frame. IllustratedSee also a 'music' painting similar in style and composition, National Trust Collection, Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire. Additional InformationOften 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. |
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