As Chinese wallpaper was very expensive – and, as catalogue co-author Andrew Bush has noted, you couldn’t just nip around the corner for an extra roll – this ‘cutting and pasting’ must have required considerable skill and nerves of steel.
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So, is your object the mirror painting or the wall paper? What are your sources? I remember reading about Chinese glass painting on the MIT Visualising Cultures web site. Perhaps that site might be of use for you if you go with mirror painting. But is mirror painting the same as glass painting?
hello, and sorry for late reply. I m doing wall paper from saltram palace !