Sale 6185
London
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16 December 1999
Price realised
GBP 13,225
Estimate
A SET OF SIX CONTINENTAL REVERSE PAINTINGS ON GLASS First half of 19th Century Each painted in the late 17th/early 18th Century Dutch style, depicting genre scenes of peasants beside rivers and towns, within ebonised and parcel-gilt frames 11 in. x 13 in. (28 cm. x 35 cm.) (6)
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With her high-piled ringlets, gold earrings and heavy black kohl, the woman portrayed in this funerary painting offers a glimpse of life almost 2,000 years ago