Antique Royal Vienna Handpainted Porcelain Cabinet Plate Greek Goddess Daphne circa 1890 Recently Added 5 cm X 71 cm

5 cm X 71 cm (low: 56 cm

The back having an upholstered head rest with stylized acanthus leaf carving with a carved mask to the center

where this rather beautiful box comes from

took private drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger from 1845 to 1848

Antique Royal Vienna Handpainted Porcelain Cabinet Plate Greek Goddess Daphne circa 1890 Recently Added 5 cm X 71 cmA fine antique Austrian Royal Vienna handpainted & gilded porcelain cabinet plate, circa 1890. The plate is very finely decorated with a central handpainted scene of the goddess Daphne seated by a steam in a bucolic setting, with her attendant "Silvie". The border of the plate is almost sumptously decorated with raised gilded panels on blue and red ground, the plate is marked to the verso with Royal Vienna's blue beehive mark and the title "Daphne &