yuwei-final project-Chinoiserie-wallpaper and reversed glass painting

The Chinese Bedroom at Saltram, one of the mid C18th Chinese mirror paintings with a Rococo style.
The Chinese Bedroom at Saltram, one of the mid C18th Chinese mirror paintings with a Rococo style.
A close-up of a mid 18th century Chinese mirror painting of a woman in a blue silk robe with a child in a pink robe beneath trees. It hangs in a contemporary English rococo giltwood frame.
A close-up of a mid 18th century Chinese mirror painting of a woman in a blue silk robe with a child in a pink robe beneath trees. It hangs in a contemporary English rococo giltwood frame.

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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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2 thoughts on “yuwei-final project-Chinoiserie-wallpaper and reversed glass painting”

  1. 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?

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