Eglomise painting technique (1 Viewer)

[DoberDadinMD]

Just got the go ahead from the woman related to me by marriage to kit out my "war" room to house the toy soldiers, etc. I just won this in an on-line auction and I think it will be the centerpiece of one of the walls. It is reverse painted on glass -- anyone ever seen anything like this?

 

[Flyboy]

Just got the go ahead from the woman related to me by marriage to kit out my "war" room to house the toy soldiers, etc. I just won this in an on-line auction and I think it will be the centerpiece of one of the walls. It is reverse painted on glass -- anyone ever seen anything like this?

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Wow, how nice! I have not seen this technique but what a purchase you have made. Id have done it too. Mike

 

[DoberDadinMD]

Wow, how nice! I have not seen this technique but what a purchase you have made. Id have done it too. Mike

Thanks! It quickly went past my first upper limit bid, but thankfully not the second.

 

[DoberDadinMD]

Just to close the loop on this. It arrived today and is very very impressive. Looks to be a copy of a Robert Dodd painting of the Battle of Cape St Vincent reverse painted on glass.

 

[Napoleon1er]

Beautiful! One of my biggest buying regrets is not purchasing a painting of Napoleon sighting a gun painted on ivory.

 

[BLReed]

It is reverse painted on glass -- anyone ever seen anything like this?

Eglomise painting originated in 16th and 17th Century in Italy and France. Yours looks to
be a 19th Century-early 20th Century Chinese done for the export market. Ah yes, before WalMart. Chinese
Antiques bring high prices these days as the more affluent Chinese are buying their heritage back.
Not so much for things they did for export. You might want to have yours appraised. A couple
hundred bucks is my guess. A bit more if the ships can be identified.

 

[DoberDadinMD]

It is reverse painted on glass -- anyone ever seen anything like this?

Eglomise painting originated in 16th and 17th Century in Italy and France. Yours looks to
be a 19th Century-early 20th Century Chinese done for the export market. Ah yes, before WalMart. Chinese
Antiques bring high prices these days as the more affluent Chinese are buying their heritage back.
Not so much for things they did for export. You might want to have yours appraised. A couple
hundred bucks is my guess. A bit more if the ships can be identified.

Interesting! What are the characteristics that point to a Chinese connection?

 

[BLReed]

Interesting! What are the characteristics that point to a Chinese connection?

Overall style and not much detail in the ships---hull, rigging. and etc. I doubt if the frame is original either.

 

[DoberDadinMD]

Overall style and not much detail in the ships---hull, rigging. and etc. I doubt if the frame is original either.

You're spot on with all those points. I didn't suspect a Chinese origin; assumed a more recent UK reproduction.