LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCEPTRE MARK, W, CYPHER AND 485 290

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A BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'THE PURSUIT OF FAME.'
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCEPTRE MARK, W, CYPHER AND 485 290
Finely painted after Henneberg's 'die Fagd nach dem Gluck' with a view emblematic of Avarice depicted as a horseman pursuing Fortune closely followed by Death, the body of a brunette maiden in a white gown at the right end of the bridge below the horse's hooves, mad Ludwig's Neuschwanstein Castle at the far left
9¾ in. (25 cm.) high, 16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) wide, excluding the gilt gesso frame

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Rudolph-Friedrich-August Henneberg, Brunswick (1862 - 1876). A member of the Academy of Berlin, Henneberg had considerable success in Vienna and Paris - most notably at the Paris Universelle Exposition of 1878.

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