A PAIR OF VIENNA-STYLE DARK-BLUE-GROUND PLATES painted by Wagner with portraits of young girls wearing broad-brimmed bonnets trimmed with pink ribbon and transparent white robes, one entitled Flieder with a ribbon-tied spray of white flowers, leaning her left arm on a pedestal, the other entitled Rosen holding a basket of roses from which she has taken a yellow flower, the borders richly gilt with bands of foliate-scrolls reserved with oval cartouches of animals in landscapes and quatrefoil cartouches enclosing bowls of flowers, artist's signatures, blue beehive marks, black script, overglaze gilt rose marks, circa 1900

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A PAIR OF VIENNA-STYLE DARK-BLUE-GROUND PLATES painted by Wagner with portraits of young girls wearing broad-brimmed bonnets trimmed with pink ribbon and transparent white robes, one entitled Flieder with a ribbon-tied spray of white flowers, leaning her left arm on a pedestal, the other entitled Rosen holding a basket of roses from which she has taken a yellow flower, the borders richly gilt with bands of foliate-scrolls reserved with oval cartouches of animals in landscapes and quatrefoil cartouches enclosing bowls of flowers, artist's signatures, blue beehive marks, black script, overglaze gilt rose marks, circa 1900
10in. (25.5cm.) diam. (2)

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