3201 - KPM Berlin picture plate ‘The Fool in Love’

KPM Berlin picture plate ‘The Fool in Love’ based on a painting by the German artist Hermann von Kaulbach (1846-1909), signed ‘Wagner’ in the bottom left-hand corner, probably by the porcelain painter Franz Wagner (active in Vienna from around 1894 to 1908, amongst other places), embossed sceptre mark, maker’s mark and number 237 158, as well as an old label bearing the handwritten inscription “No. 946 ... von Kaulbach’, tall rectangular porcelain plate with fine polychrome painting, a genre scene depicting a maid looking down at the floor in embarrassment, holding a broom, and a plump man in a jester’s costume tenderly touching her on the back, set in a wide, gold-bronze-plated stucco frame, the frame having undergone minimal colour retouching; otherwise in good condition for its age; plate dimensions 24.5 x 16.5 cm; frame dimensions max. 37 x 29 cm.