Lot Essay
The scene on this plaque is derived from the fourth engraving of Six differentes Vues d'après Nature by Franz Edmund Weirotter. For an illustration of this engraving, see Ducret ibid., p. 29, fig 2.
For a discussion of Fürstenberg plaques, see Manfred Meinz, 'Die Tableaus der Fürstenberger Porzellan-Manufaktur', Keramos, No. 162, 1998, pp. 15-70. Another plaque with a pastoral scene from the Gustav von Gerhardt Collection, Budapest, was sold by Lepke, Berlin, on 8th November 1911, lot 321.
For a discussion of Fürstenberg plaques, see Manfred Meinz, 'Die Tableaus der Fürstenberger Porzellan-Manufaktur', Keramos, No. 162, 1998, pp. 15-70. Another plaque with a pastoral scene from the Gustav von Gerhardt Collection, Budapest, was sold by Lepke, Berlin, on 8th November 1911, lot 321.