A FINE AND RARE EUROPEAN SUBJECT REVERSE PAINTING ON GLASS CIRCA 1810 Well painted with a scene from a play by Shakespeare, most likely the 'Merry Wives of Windsor', depicting two well-dressed women conversing in a lush garden while another eavesdrops from behind a tree, a flower-bedecked garden urn engraved on the pedestal with the name PETERS rising above them against a gray, cloudy sky, separated by a narrow gilt band from the midnight blue outer border, SHAKESPEARE inscribed in gilding on the lower border--23 7/8 x 19 1/8 in. (60.6 x 48.4cm.), original gilded frame
A FINE AND RARE EUROPEAN SUBJECT REVERSE PAINTING ON GLASS CIRCA 1810 Well painted with a scene from a play by Shakespeare, most likely the 'Merry Wives of Windsor', depicting two well-dressed women conversing in a lush garden while another eavesdrops from behind a tree, a flower-bedecked garden urn engraved on the pedestal with the name PETERS rising above them against a gray, cloudy sky, separated by a narrow gilt band from the midnight blue outer border, SHAKESPEARE inscribed in gilding on the lower border--23 7/8 x 19 1/8 in. (60.6 x 48.4cm.), original gilded frame
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