A LARGE BERLIN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR PORTRAIT PLAQUE, painted in colours in the oil-painting-style, by Otto Dietrich after Christian Kohler, depicting a dreamy young maiden on a terrace, wearing a flowing robe and holding a purple garment on her lap, her hair with a string of pearls, standing with her right foot on a plinth beside a balustrade, a large orange-brown tasselled drapery to the right, an italianate landscape and classical architectural structures bathing in a sunset light to the background, impressed K.P.M. marks under Ö, a sceptre and 4 above Pressnummern 420-315, circa 1850's

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A LARGE BERLIN PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR PORTRAIT PLAQUE, painted in colours in the oil-painting-style, by Otto Dietrich after Christian Kohler, depicting a dreamy young maiden on a terrace, wearing a flowing robe and holding a purple garment on her lap, her hair with a string of pearls, standing with her right foot on a plinth beside a balustrade, a large orange-brown tasselled drapery to the right, an italianate landscape and classical architectural structures bathing in a sunset light to the background, impressed K.P.M. marks under Ö, a sceptre and 4 above Pressnummern 420-315, circa 1850's
31.5 x 41.5 cm

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Christian Kohler (1809-1861) was a famous portrait and history painter. Otto Dietrich was a porcelain painter working for the Berlin manufactory who had studied at the Berlin and Düsseldorf accademies and who finally settled in the Westphalian capital.

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