Antique Royal Vienna Handpainted Porcelain Cabinet Plate Greek Goddess Daphne circa 1890 Decorative Arts the painting is signed lower

the painting is signed lower left "Harry Hall 1866"

Such gold snuff bottles are exceedingly rare and were only made for the Imperial household and other high ranking officials of the Imperial court

In the autumn of 1851 he went to the Düsseldorf Academy

Although not as widely known as some of his contemporaries

The coaster having a flared & ribbed rim with baronial a engraved crest to the front of a snake within a laurel wreath

Antique Royal Vienna Handpainted Porcelain Cabinet Plate Greek Goddess Daphne circa 1890 Decorative Arts the painting is signed lowerA 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 &