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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Darkwing Manor, post: 2362777, member: 738&quot;]I have always struggled with telling Japanese from Chinese decorative and fine arts. I&#039;d love to see someone here write up a tutorial on it. I own two 19th century eglomise portraits, after the works of Joseph Stieler, for Bavarian King Ludwig the First&#039;s Gallery of Beauty. Interestingly, the eyes look Asian. Based on that, I feel they are Chinese exports.&nbsp; Definitely not fine art, but an interesting example of Chinese commercial art for a Western audience. Mine are hopelessly buried in my storage, but I found a poor old photo of them in my parlour, and have included reference images of very similar ones I found on the Internet. Even the frames are identical.&nbsp; The eyes on mine are more Asian in shape than these two bottom examples. It was exciting doing the research to actually track down the names of the models, chosen for their beauty by Ludwig&#039;s agents&nbsp; They models were allowed to keep the dresses that they were painted in. [ATTACH=full]261529[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]261530[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]261531[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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