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Painting on Porcelain Tablet
Queen Louise of Prussia
Painted porcelain tile. Berlin, last quarter of the 19th century. The delicate porcelain portrays Queen Louise of Prussia (1776 -1810). The queen is dressed in a white dress edged in gold, in the Empire style, while on one shoulder she carries a blue cloak lined with ermine; her blond hair is gathered and held back by a gold diadem. Louise is descending the steps of a classical building: the base and the lower part of a tapered column can be glimpsed, just as the herms in the background look to the ancient world, while in the background a wooded landscape can be seen. The porcelain is marked on the back with the royal sceptre accompanied by the initials “KPM”, also impressed with “255-195”, “h” and monogram. The painting is signed Wagner. Presented in a contemporary frame richly carved with scrolls and entirely gilded.