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A RARE REVERSE-GLASS PAINTING OF ‘SAPPHO’
Circa 1810
Expertly painted depicting the ancient Greek poetess in profile gazing
up to the left, her hair blown by the wind, clad in a loose flowing toga,
a band around her left arm, framed.
Overall 47.5cm (18 3/4in) wide x 60cm (23 3/4in) long.
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

約1810年 繪希臘詩人沙芙像玻璃鏡畫

Published and Illustrated: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition,
London, 2011, no.117.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，
編號117

For this subject, see T.Audric, Chinese reverse glass painting 1720–
1820: An artistic meeting between China and the West, Bern, Berlin,
Brussels, New York and Oxford, 2020, p.213, no.346. The picture is
taken from a painting by Richard Westall (1765-1836), entitled Portrait
of the artist’s wife as Sappho. Westall was an English painter and
illustrator and the drawing-master of the young Queen Victoria. See
also a reverse glass painting of ‘Venus and Cupid’, copying in China an
original drawing by Richard Westall, illustrated by S.Jenyns, Chinese
Art: The Minor Arts II, London, 1965, pp.154-155.

735
A REVERSE-GLASS MIRROR PAINTING OF A LADY
18th century
Depicting an elegant lady standing holding a tobacco pipe and pouch
in her right hand and a fan in her left hand, dressed in cascading blue
robes and a red undergarment, with silvered mirror background, wood
frame. 65.5cm (25 3/4in) high x 51cm (20in) wide.
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
735
十八世紀 仕女圖玻璃鏡畫

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