CIRCA 1850, IMPRESSED WITH A SCEPTRE ABOVE KPM, INCISED 407 263

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A Berlin (KPM) rectangular mythological large portrait plaque
CIRCA 1850, IMPRESSED WITH A SCEPTRE ABOVE KPM, INCISED 407 263
In the oil-painting-style, probably after a painting by K. Baumbach, painted with a pensive Vestal Virgin with flowing hair and wearing Roman dress at sunset, a mountainous landscape to the background, signed Meinelt to the lower left corner, within a wooden frame
25.5 x 40 cm. excluding frame

Provenance

Collection of Ida & Isidor Straus, New York City.
Collection of David Weisberg, New York City & Cleveland-Ohio.
By descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Ida & Isidor Straus, co-owners of Macy's department store in 1896, were immortalized when they went to their deaths, refusing to leave each other, when the Titanic sank on the 14th of April, 1912. David Weisberg, their private secretary, chose this Meinelt plaque as a memento after their tragic death.
Carl Meinelt, porcelain painter and water colour artist, won a bronze medal at the International Exhibition, London, 1862.

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