A VIENNA-STYLE CLARET-GROUND OVAL DISH painted with Hectors Abschied, the hero shown bidding farewell to his wife, Andromache, and his son, Astyanax, at the gates of Troy, surrounded by a confusion of warriors and attendants arrayed before the battlements of the town, within ciselé and seeded gilt outlines, the border reserved with pink-ground medallions enclosing martial trophies divided by undulating foliate-scrolls in gilding, blue beehive mark, iron-red script, circa 1870

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A VIENNA-STYLE CLARET-GROUND OVAL DISH painted with Hectors Abschied, the hero shown bidding farewell to his wife, Andromache, and his son, Astyanax, at the gates of Troy, surrounded by a confusion of warriors and attendants arrayed before the battlements of the town, within ciselé and seeded gilt outlines, the border reserved with pink-ground medallions enclosing martial trophies divided by undulating foliate-scrolls in gilding, blue beehive mark, iron-red script, circa 1870
11in. (28cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Cf. A Vienna coffee-pot and cover of 1796, painted with this subject, sold in these Rooms, 25 November 1991, lot 284

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