SIX VIENNA-STYLE PLATES painted by Sibl in the manner of Angelica Kauffmann with classical figures in landscapes within claret borders enriched in gilding with symmetrical foliage-scrolls and husks and with a line and loop-pattern at the rims (one repaired at rim, some wear to paint), artist's signatures, blue beehive marks, iron-red script on the reverses, circa 1880
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SIX VIENNA-STYLE PLATES painted by Sibl in the manner of Angelica Kauffmann with classical figures in landscapes within claret borders enriched in gilding with symmetrical foliage-scrolls and husks and with a line and loop-pattern at the rims (one repaired at rim, some wear to paint), artist's signatures, blue beehive marks, iron-red script on the reverses, circa 1880
8¼in. (21cm.) diam. (6)
Lot Essay
Cf. Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Barbara Mundt, op. cit., p. 63 for an example of a Vienna plate of circa 1821 painted with Ariadne Abandoned