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Lot Essay
See Wilhelm Mrazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718- 1864, Vienna, 1970, Tafel 85, no. 604 for a tray of similar form; and Tafel 90, no. 649 for a plate of 1799 similarly painted in colors on a chocolate brown ground with a putto driving a chariot.
See also Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk and Claudia Jobst, Viennese Porcelain of the Neo-Classical Period, The Conrad von Sorgenthal Era 1784-1805, Vienna, 2000, pp. 87-108 for a detailed discussion of mythology as a design source at Vienna and the type of decoration in which these subjects appear. Anton Kothgasser and Georg Lamprecht are two painters associated with mythological decoration.
See also Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk and Claudia Jobst, Viennese Porcelain of the Neo-Classical Period, The Conrad von Sorgenthal Era 1784-1805, Vienna, 2000, pp. 87-108 for a detailed discussion of mythology as a design source at Vienna and the type of decoration in which these subjects appear. Anton Kothgasser and Georg Lamprecht are two painters associated with mythological decoration.