拍品 62
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A CONTINENTAL RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'LORELEY'
A CONTINENTAL RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'LORELEY'

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GERMAN

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A CONTINENTAL RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'LORELEY'
Late 19th/20th century, probably German
Painted after W. Kray with the scantily clad siren seated among rockwork, a lyre beside her
17 3/8 x 11 in. (44 x 28 cm.), within a giltwood frame

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Wilhelm Kray, German (1828-1889)

Lorelei, or the siren of the Rhine, used her beauty to bewitch sailors passing through the narrowest and deepest part of the river and causing them to crash or sink their ships.