Pick of the Week: Chinese bustle and calm in one view
Large-scale paintings of intimate domestic scenes are unusual in Chinese art. The Chinese export reverse-painted glass painting of a young mother nursing her infant son offered at Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, earlier this month is thought to be one of only a handful of full-size versions painted of this once popular image.
As well as the sitters, who share a marble-inlaid hardwood luohan chuang, in the background hangs …