A Chinese Export mirror painting, Qing dynasty, 18th Century.
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Depicting an elgeant Chinese couple sitting on a spotted bamboo bench. Measure motif 55x82 cm. Measure with frame 64x91 cm.
Damaged, extra glass in front of the mirror to hold it.
Provenance
From the Collection of Cleive Hornstrand and his wife, born Grill, thence by descent.
Previously in the collection the Grill family estate of Gode Gård, Östergötland.
Literature
Depicted at Godegård in Svenska Slott och Herresäten, Östergötland, Band III, Stockholm 1934. Page 34, in the library.
More information
Godegård is one of the oldest ironworks in Östergötland's Bergslag. Ore was mined and processed here as early as the Middle Ages. In 1775, the property passed to the director of the East India Company, Johan Abraham Grill, who after successful years in China wished for a stately residence.