Review of Mayer, R.; Knothe, F.; Shuo, H. (2022) Reflected beauty: Chinese reverse glass paintings from the Mei Lin Collection

Poel, R.H.M. van der (2023)

Book review

In this well-documented, bilingual, and richly illustrated catalogue, published for the long-anticipated exhibition Reflected Beauty: Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings from the Mei Lin Collection at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong (September 2021-January 2022), the authors give us a profound insight into the phenomenon of reverse painting on glass and mirror paintings, with a particular focus on those from the Mei Lin Collection assembled by the Sinologist, author, and translator Rupprecht Mayer and his wife Haitang Mayer-Liem. Composed of over one hundred works acquired in East Asia between 1968 and 2012, this is one of the world's most important collections of Chinese reverse glass paintings from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• China
• Reverse Glass Paintings
• Mirror Paintings
• Chinese Export Painting
• Catalogue
• 1900s
• 19th Century

• All authors: Poel, R.H.M. van der
• Date: 2023-05-15
• Title of host publication: Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 5
• Link: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2023/05/37408.html
• Title: Reflected beauty: Chinese reverse glass paintings from the Mei Lin Collection
• Original authors: Mayer
• Publication Date: 2022
• Publisher: Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press