Lot Essay
Hermann Thiele is recorded at Berlin (K.P.M.) in the 1890's. For an entry noting Thiele's favored motif as female heads in profile and an illustration of a solitaire of similar design, see B. Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte,The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, London, 1992, pp. 192 & 225 and pl. XXLIX.