A BERLIN (K.P.M.) RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'FIAMETTA'
A BERLIN (K.P.M.) RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'FIAMETTA'

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE BEEHIVE MARK, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCEPTRE MARK, W AND CYPHER, 815 895, SIGNED F. WAGNER WIEN

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A BERLIN (K.P.M.) RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'FIAMETTA'
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE BEEHIVE MARK, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCEPTRE MARK, W AND CYPHER, 815 895, SIGNED F. Wagner Wien
Finely painted after Lefebvre with a bust-length portrait of Boccaccio's renowned auburn-haired beauty
15 x 12 in. (38 x 30.2 cm.), within a giltwood frame

Lot Essay

Jules Joseph Lefebvre, French (1836-1911)

Giovanni Boccaccio was a 14th century Italian Reanissance poet and author of the Decameron. In his prose his wife is immortalized as the character 'Fiammetta'.

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