A VIENNA-STYLE CLARET-GROUND CIRCULAR DISH painted by C. Heer with a Roman emperor wearing white robes and holding a vase, seated in an interior with columns and flanked by two attendants, one dragging a girl slave by the hand, the young woman wearing a loose white robe and standing on a tiger-skin rug, the border reserved with gilt vases and scrolls within circular and quatrefoil medallions and enriched with coloured scrolling arabesques within yellow rims, artist's signature, blue beehive mark, circa 1890

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A VIENNA-STYLE CLARET-GROUND CIRCULAR DISH painted by C. Heer with a Roman emperor wearing white robes and holding a vase, seated in an interior with columns and flanked by two attendants, one dragging a girl slave by the hand, the young woman wearing a loose white robe and standing on a tiger-skin rug, the border reserved with gilt vases and scrolls within circular and quatrefoil medallions and enriched with coloured scrolling arabesques within yellow rims, artist's signature, blue beehive mark, circa 1890
9½in. (24cm.) diam.

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