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Artworks
THE H. J. JOEL MIRROR PAINTINGS, The mirror paintings: Chinese export, circa 1765
The frames: modern, 20th century.Height: 50 ½ in; 128.5 cm
Width: 31 ¼ in; 79.5 cm4478531Further images
A fine pair of mid 18th century reverse mirror paintings each depicting pheasants by a water shore with prunus trees and grasses and boats in the background within later giltwood...A fine pair of mid 18th century reverse mirror paintings each depicting pheasants by a water shore with prunus trees and grasses and boats in the background within later giltwood frames carved with grasses and waterfall decorations and having shaped and pierced apron and cresting with a leaf carved plume.Provenance
H.J. Joel, Esq., Childwick Bury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire; sold Christie's London, 15 May 1978, lot 56.Literature
Graham Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, London 1990, pp. 350, 378.
