A CHINESE REVERSE MIRROR PAINTING-ON-GLASS depicting a pair of pheasants on rocks below a flowering tree, in an extensive lake landscape with framing trees, other birds on a small island and a chinoiserie villa on a large island beyond, in a pierced giltwood foliate frame carved with reeds and with an urn-of-reeds cresting, the frame modern and the painting 18th Century

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A CHINESE REVERSE MIRROR PAINTING-ON-GLASS depicting a pair of pheasants on rocks below a flowering tree, in an extensive lake landscape with framing trees, other birds on a small island and a chinoiserie villa on a large island beyond, in a pierced giltwood foliate frame carved with reeds and with an urn-of-reeds cresting, the frame modern and the painting 18th Century
42½in. x 48½in. (108cm. x 123cm.)
Provenance
Bought with the smaller pair of mirror-paintings from Blairman at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, 1958, for #1,627

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