Antique Royal Vienna Handpainted Porcelain Cabinet Plate Greek Goddess Daphne circa 1890 Decorative Arts This event followed the confiscation

This event followed the confiscation of more than one thousand of his works from German museums during the Nazi purge of "degenerate" art

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Such gold snuff bottles are exceedingly rare and were only made for the Imperial household and other high ranking officials of the Imperial court

Although not as widely known as some of his contemporaries

an elegant early Georg Jensen Art Nouveau sterling silver bowl

Antique Royal Vienna Handpainted Porcelain Cabinet Plate Greek Goddess Daphne circa 1890 Decorative Arts This event followed the confiscationA fine antique Austrian Royal Vienna handpainted & gilded porcelain cabinet plate, circa 1890. The plate is very finely decorated with a central handpainted scene of the goddess Daphne seated by a steam in a bucolic setting, with her attendant "Silvie". The border of the plate is almost sumptously decorated with raised gilded panels on blue and red ground, the plate is marked to the verso with Royal Vienna's blue beehive mark and the title "Daphne &