Antique Royal Vienna Porcelain Cabinet Plate Painting by Angelica Kauffman 1890 Sculpture the composition is in pencil

the composition is in pencil and charcoal with pastel & gouache on handmade paper

The case is hallmarked to the gilt interior with the lion passant mark and the silver purity mark for 875 and the goldsmith's stamp for Hirsch Markowitsch

The top having cut corners with a band of blue around the rim

This exquisite table is typical of the extremely high-quality marquetry inlaid furniture produced by St

in good antique condition

Antique Royal Vienna Porcelain Cabinet Plate Painting by Angelica Kauffman 1890 Sculpture the composition is in pencilA fine antique Austrian Royal Vienna handpainted & gilded porcelain cabinet plate, circa 1890. To the center of the plate is a handpainted scene of Odysseus's wife Penelope being awakend by Odysseus's nurse Eurycleia, the scene taken from Homer's epic "The Odyssey". The decoration is after the 18th century painting by Angelica Kauffman. The border having six pink glazed panels finely decorated with raised gilding and punctuated with claret colored