A pair of Chinese reverse glass paintings, one painted and gilt with an official seated before an open window wearing a dark green robe and a red fringed hat capped with a peacock feather, his official badge of office with a ho-o perched on rockwork above foaming waves, the other with a lady seated on rockwork beneath an overhanging tree wearing a decorative headband and pink and blue robes decorated with flowers, a small bird perched on her right hand -- both 9¼in.x 7¼in., wood frames.

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A pair of Chinese reverse glass paintings, one painted and gilt with an official seated before an open window wearing a dark green robe and a red fringed hat capped with a peacock feather, his official badge of office with a ho-o perched on rockwork above foaming waves, the other with a lady seated on rockwork beneath an overhanging tree wearing a decorative headband and pink and blue robes decorated with flowers, a small bird perched on her right hand -- both 9¼in.x 7¼in., wood frames.
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