KPM Style Porcelain Plaque Depicting a Maiden as a Young Bacchante, circa 1910

A very fine KPM porcelain plaque of a young woman in a giltwood frame. German, circa 1890. This fine KPM plaque is superbly painted with a portrait bust of a young woman holdi...

'Clementine', A Large Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque After Conrad Kiesel. In a fine pierced giltwood and composition frame. Inscribed 'nach C. Kiesel'...

A fine KPM porcelain plaque depicting a scene from Shakespeare's Play Othello, after the painting by Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker, (German, 1820-1900).  Signed ‘R. Wagner’. Impressed mark to the reverse ‘KPM’ (Konigliche Porzellan...

A Very Fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque Of A Young Woman, In a Giltwood Frame. The plaque has an impressed KPM sceptre mark to the reverse with impressed number 315_255 and a letter H. A paper label for the studio of 'Franz Xavier Thallmaier, Mucnich'. This fine KPM plaque is superbly painted with a portrait bust of a young woman holding a music scroll and a laurel branch, possibly representing St. Cecilia. The plaque is set in a giltwood frame. Franz Xaver Thallmaier (1890-1910) established in Munich in 1890 one of the most prominent and successful porcelain painting studios in Germany. He employed a number of talented porcelain painters specialising in portraits and genre scenes after artists such as Joseph Stieler, Wilhelm Kray...

Porcelain painting: Representation of Greek-antique architecture with playing nymphs and putti, partly on a swing, watched by a young woman who leans her elbows on a parapet and puts her head in her hands, on the right a tree and banana plants. Exquisite porcelain painting in a gilded wooden frame, after the painting 'L'escarpolette' by the Belgian painter Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans...

KPM style porcelain plaque of Orientalist Bazaar scene German, 20th century Measures: Frame: Height 78cm, width 53cm, depth 5cm Plaque: Height 60cm, width 35cm, depth 0.5cm This fin...

German KPM porcelain plaque of an interior bedroom scene German, late 19th century Dimensions: Frame height 38cm, width 44cm, plaque height 26.5cm, width 31cm This fine porcelai...

Orientalist style works became very popular in the 19th Century, and the tradition continued into the early 20th Century, when this fine porcelain plaque was produced. Manufactured by famed German firm KPM, the plaque was retailed in New York by Gilman Collamore & Co., who imported high-end works of porcelain and glass. The plaque still bears the retailer's label to the reverse reading 'Gilman Collamore & Co, Union Sq. NY'. The plaque is rectangular in shape, and portrays a young girl, swathed in rich, red draped clothing, reaching upward to give food to a white dove perched on a wire. The girl, her hair bound up in the Orientalist fashion, wears an armband as well as hoop earrings. The interior in which the scene is set is hung with luxurious textiles and decorated with gilt detailing. The plaque is housed in a giltwood frame and is marked to the reverse with the sceptre mark of KPM porcelain, together with the retailer's label. The reverse also bears a written inscription reading 'Orientalisches Mädchen / L. Sturm', the title translating to 'Oriental girl...