Hutschenreuther Hohenberg Portrait Plate Princess "Auguste Sophie v. England after Gainsborough.", impressed mark 1857-1910, embossed mark, incised number 24 and red brush mark, flat moulded form with splendid decoration in the old Viennese style, the ivory-coloured glazed rim with fine gold dots and two framing laurel friezes in gold etching, the mirror with fine polychrome onglaze painting, against a dark ground a bust portrait of Princess Augusta Sophia of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (1768-1840), sixth child of the British King George III and his wife Queen Charlotte. and his wife Queen Charlotte, aged 13, after a painting by the English portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), signed Dietrich, probably porcelain painter Oswald Dietrich (active in Berlin around 1900), good condition for her age, d 24 cm.

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