Antique Royal Vienna Handpainted Porcelain Cabinet Plate Greek Goddess Daphne circa 1890 Decorative Arts an elegant early Georg Jensen

an elegant early Georg Jensen Art Nouveau sterling silver bowl

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

Kunstindeks Danmark

Although not as widely known as some of his contemporaries

In the autumn of 1851 he went to the Düsseldorf Academy

Antique Royal Vienna Handpainted Porcelain Cabinet Plate Greek Goddess Daphne circa 1890 Decorative Arts an elegant early Georg JensenA 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 &