china-trade-reverse-glass-painting-of-the-glaslyn
Lot 1017
China Trade Reverse Glass Painting of The Glaslyn
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on glass, late 19th century, inscribed within a painted cartouche at lower center "Glaslyn / G. Lewis Master," framed.

Frame dimensions 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.

Collection of a Gentleman, Eastern North Carolina

The Glaslyn was a wooden barque built in 1873 or 1876 by the Pembroke Dock Co-Operative Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. for Evan Jones & Co. of Cardiff, Wales.

Minor rubbing to frame; some rubbing to sky; not examined out of the frame.