WAGNER SIGNED
SMALL PAINTING ON HUTSCHENREUTHER PORCELAIN
SIGNED ON VERSO
ORIGINAL FRAME
OVAL SHAPED
image approx 2.5 x 3.25
framed approx 5.5 x 5.5 inches
THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL PIECE
Outstanding antique 19th century Hutschenreuther porcelain oval portrait plaque. A beautiful KPM quality hand painted miniature portrait of a semi-nude beauty, her shoulders framed by a cascade of flowing chestnut hair, gowned in blue and diaphanous gossamer draped across her bosom. After the painting entitled Épanouissement or Erblühen (Full Bloom or Blooming) by the famed French/Italian genre painter and illustrator Angelo Asti (1847 - 1903), whose romantic portraitures of beautiful women were wildly popular at the turn of the century. Signed to the lower left corner Wagner. Bears the impressed Hutschenreuther CMHR mark in a circle mark, which was used between 1857 and 1899. Size Faintly stamped Germany. Frame measures 5.5" x 5.5". Plaque measures 3.25" x 2.5".