Antique Royal Vienna Porcelain Cabinet Plate Painting by Angelica Kauffman 1890 Redo A large and rare antique

A large and rare antique Austrian gilded bronze desk set/sculpture

a theme which became particularly pronounced in an abstract expressionist style after the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War

was always an emphasis on the creative challenges of the human figure

Signed and annotated “epreuve d’artiste” in pencil

circa 1830

Antique Royal Vienna Porcelain Cabinet Plate Painting by Angelica Kauffman 1890 Redo A large and rare antiqueA fine antique Austrian Royal Vienna handpainted & gilded porcelain cabinet plate, circa 1890. To the center of the plate is a handpainted scene of Odysseus's wife Penelope being awakend by Odysseus's nurse Eurycleia, the scene taken from Homer's epic "The Odyssey". The decoration is after the 18th century painting by Angelica Kauffman. The border having six pink glazed panels finely decorated with raised gilding and punctuated with claret colored