Sale 2897
New York
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18 November 2014
Price realised
USD 4,375
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
A BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, RUTH LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED MONOGRAM AND SCEPTRE MARK, H AND CYPHER, INCISED 15 ½ - 10 Finely painted after Landelle with a three-quarter length portrait of the Biblical beauty in a gray shift and white headscarf holding a bundle of wheat 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) high, 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) wide, excluding the pierced giltwood frame
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Charles Landelle, French (1812-1908).
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