Rouen Ware by Dora Carrington – £13,200 at Keys Fine Art Auctioneers.
In the early 1920s, the artist Dora Carrington (1893-1932) began creating a series of foil glass paintings.
These so called ‘tinsel’ pictures were made by creating a mirror image of the subject outlined in ink, which was then filled with colourful opaque paints and backed with flattened foils. An Oriental technique made popular by the Victorians, it gives pictures a pearlescent quality.