Henry Bunbury
Henry Bunbury Temple of the Sun

Prints & Engravings

Antique Chinese Export Painting on Glass after Henry Bunbury

£3,400

An exquisite Chinese Export  reverse glass painting depicting a turbaned supplicant kneeling before a flower-decked neo-classical altar, within an oval with the title The Temple of the Sun. Presented in the original giltwood frame

Height 39.5 cm (15.5 inches)
Width 32.5 cm (12.75 inches)
China, for the English market. circa. 1790

Henry William Bunbury, 1750 – 1811, published his Arabian Nights Entertainment series, on which the present painting is based, in 1785

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SKU: B4896
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