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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS PICTURES DEPICTING SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF DON QUIXOTE
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ANN BARBRE VON ESCH (19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS PICTURES DEPICTING SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF DON QUIXOTE
depicting Don Quixote leaping onto his horse and at a Courtly audience, each in carved Regence-style gilt-composition and giltwood frames carved with husks and hatched C-scrolls, one cracked, one signed in full lower right, the other with initials A.B.V.E., one with label to reverse for Léon Gruel Paris
16½ x 15 in. (42 x 38 cm.) (2)
A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS PICTURES DEPICTING SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF DON QUIXOTE
depicting Don Quixote leaping onto his horse and at a Courtly audience, each in carved Regence-style gilt-composition and giltwood frames carved with husks and hatched C-scrolls, one cracked, one signed in full lower right, the other with initials A.B.V.E., one with label to reverse for Léon Gruel Paris
16½ x 15 in. (42 x 38 cm.) (2)
Provenance
Charles de Beistegui, château de Groussay, sold Sotheby's Poulain le Fur, House sale, 4-6 June 1999, lot 1911.
Special notice
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