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Antique KPM Painted Porcelain Plaque "The Young Girl With Doves" Signed Wagner, 19th. Century

Antique KPM Painted Porcelain Plaque "The Young Girl With Doves" Signed Wagner, 19th. Century

Regular price $6,500.00 USD
Regular price $7,700.00 USD Sale price $6,500.00 USD
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Exquisite hand painted KPM porcelain plaque -  one of the finest you will see.  The panel portrays a beautiful girl seated on a wood stool, daydreaming with doves at her bare feet. Her dark grey skirt is beautifully executed, she wears a little white cap and red bodice.  
Signed lower right by Wagner. Appropriately framed in an extraordinary wooden frame composed of rosewood, ebony and other materials.
Hallmarked on the back with the impressed KPM scepter mark together with other impressed and penciled numerals & designations.
Exquisite condition. Some minor loss to frame.
19th Century.
The plaque is 9 1/2" x 6 3/8" x 1/4". The frame 15 1/4" x 12 1/4" x 1 3/4".  *Insured shipping.

The Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin (German: Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, abbreviated as KPM), also known as the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin and whose products are generally called Berlin porcelain, was founded in 1763 by King Frederick II of Prussia (known as Frederick the Great). Its actual origins, however, lie in three private enterprises which, under crown patronage, were trying to establish the production of "white gold" (i.e. porcelain) in Berlin from the mid-18th century onwards.

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