CIRCA 1800

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A REVERSE PAINTING ON GLASS
Circa 1800
Illustrating 'The Sailor's Farewell', depicting a young European seaman leaving his beloved for his ship, the couple standing hand in hand on a cliff top, she tearful and wiping her eyes, he resigned, the square rigger anchored off-shore bearing the British Red Ensign
11 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (29.5 x 22 cm.), giltwood frame

Provenance

label: Fran Schnar Jora...elsen (?), and frame by Almquist & Co, Goteborg

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Lot Essay

This subject matter was very popular in the late 18th/early 19th Century. Compare the oval reverse glass painting with the same subject, but the figures and ship are mirror-reversed, illustrated by Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of The China Trade, 1991, p.217, pl.121.

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