Two reverse-glass paintings of maidens, Persia, Qajar, 19th century

each of glass painted in reverse, oval portraits, one highlighted in gold, in gilt-wood frames set with mirror panels, each with mostly illegible inscription to reverse dated '19.9.63' 

In reasonably good overall condition, minor losses to extremities, reverse of one consolidated with glue, as viewed.
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The nineteenth-century medium of reverse-glass painting (eglomisé) was popular in much of the Orient, from Persia to Southern India and China. The Persian artists depicted mostly pretty maidens and youths, painting in the typical Qajar manner, but a few specific portraits exist, such as a very fine early nineteenth-century portrait of 'Abbas Mirza in the Ethnographical Museum, Tehran (see Ferrier 1989, p.230). For other reverse-glass paintings see Diba and Ekhtiar 1999, pp.212-3, no.63.