Reverse pained glass mirror
Chinese reverse-painted mirror, made for the export market in a carved European giltwood frame.
Chinese reverse-painted mirror, made for the export market in a carved European giltwood frame.. A nobleman wearing a rank badge of a white crane, seated on a rock covered with a tiger skin. The man has a long white beaded necklace and rests his arm on a ceremonial drum. There a two white cranes at his feet and a servant to the right, bringing tea, with a river landscape beyond. In a carved European giltwood frame.
The outdoor scene shows a civil official. He is dressed in a dragon robe (jifu) because it has waves around the bottom, but it would be a stretch to say the artist was deliberately depicting a brown robe for a duke, marquis or son-in law of the emperor.
Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas, Esq. 1938
Height: 36.3 cm
Width: 52.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1750
-
Circa
1800
Frame composed of wood ( gilded)
Reverse-painting : Painted with oil
Accession number: M.36-1938
Primary reference Number: 312332
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Reverse pained glass mirror" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/312332 Accessed: 2025-04-30 12:59:57
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/312332
|title=Reverse pained glass mirror
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-04-30 12:59:57|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-312332
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...