Mirror with courtly scene; China, late 19th century.

Mirror with court scene; China, late 19th century.
Painted glass.
It presents damages caused by the passage of time.
Measurements: 51 x 25 cm; 55 x 29 cm (frame).
Painted glass in which we can appreciate a scene of costumbrista character starring two richly dressed men, from which we can deduce their high social position. Costumbrista painting is a genre in which popular types and attitudes, behaviour, values and habits common to a specific population group, region or class are described by means of a satirical, nostalgic or narrative description of the environments, customs, dress, festivals and entertainments, traditions, trades and representative types of a society. The idea of costumbrismo arose from an attempt to understand reality, or more precisely, reality understood in a particular way, from a specific point of view.