A PAIR OF CHINESE REVERSE GLASS PAINTINGS circa 1770

the first painted with a European woman wearing a blue dress centered by a pink bow, the second painted with a bust length portrait of a European woman wearing a blue dress lined with fur and with a flower in her hair, each in a contemporary Chinese giltwood frame.

Each with minor losses to painted surface with minor areas of inpainting, the gilt-wood frames with some losses and wear to the gilding with some old scratches.
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