Pair of Chinese Export Reverse Glass Paintings - Late 18th Century Material - Papier Mache and Africa

and Africa

It still retain traces of white paint and also smaller traces of yellow

22 x 8 x 46 (wxdxh cms)

they can be used as storage vessels or purely as statement pieces

This Wrought Iron Table base has been made in the old fashioned way in Rajasthan

Pair of Chinese Export Reverse Glass Paintings - Late 18th Century Material - Papier Mache and AfricaThis wonderful pair of Chinese export reverse glass paintings of Chinese courtesans are framed in modern gilt frames. Beautifully painted and produced in Canton in the late 18th century. These paintings were skillfully painted on the reverse side of the glass. These are incredibly fragile remnants of the past. As exoticism took hold during the mid 18th century, there was a high demand in Georgian England for paintings of native Chinese figures &