3208 - Old Viennese-style serving tray

Old Viennese-style serving tray Thuringia or Bohemia, c. 1900, monogrammed ‘AJ.’ in the lower left-hand corner of the design, blue beehive mark (Bindenschild), flat oblong shape with a slightly quatrefoil-curved outline, featuring ivory-coloured and carmine-red background fields and a central reserve, featuring a polychrome overglaze decoration depicting a mythological scene in a suggestive riverside landscape, likely a wedding scene between a river god and a nymph, crowned by Cupid and accompanied by Triton blowing a conch shell, surrounded by lavish floral and ornamental gold painting with gold dots, the gold rim is very slightly worn; otherwise in good condition for its age; dimensions 36.5 x 26.5 cm.