A VIENNA-STYLE DARK-BLUE-GROUND RECTANGULAR TRAY painted after Peter Paul Rubens with Die Opferschau, a sacrificial presentation to the Consul Decius Mus, attended by two children holding a box and a torch and with warriors and a trumpeter before a tent, two slaves bringing another reluctant animal to the sacrifice, in an extensive mountainous landscape, the scene enclosed within a rectangular ciselé gilt cartouche and a border enriched with medallions, formal scrolls and fret-patterns, within a claret band and a gilt pierced-diaper rim, blue beehive mark, iron-red script, circa 1880

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A VIENNA-STYLE DARK-BLUE-GROUND RECTANGULAR TRAY painted after Peter Paul Rubens with Die Opferschau, a sacrificial presentation to the Consul Decius Mus, attended by two children holding a box and a torch and with warriors and a trumpeter before a tent, two slaves bringing another reluctant animal to the sacrifice, in an extensive mountainous landscape, the scene enclosed within a rectangular ciselé gilt cartouche and a border enriched with medallions, formal scrolls and fret-patterns, within a claret band and a gilt pierced-diaper rim, blue beehive mark, iron-red script, circa 1880
12½in. x 16½in. (31.7cm. x 41.7cm.)

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