reverse painted art glass with wood stand, appx 150 yrs old

Dynasties of Asia offers this remarkable antique Chinese reverse painted mirror with stand.

Reverse painted art became a common form of interpretation and expression during the middle to late Q'ing Dynasty in China.

The stand that accompanies this antique painted mirror shows a dog (fu) on each side of the frame, indicating that the mother and child were being protected from outside influences.

Additionally, experts tend to believe that the dogs represented the year of the dog...speculating that this Reverse Painted art was made between 1838-1887.