205 - Five decorative plates with soft vegetable motifs by Richard Flöricke. Round, slightly concave shape with a gracefully curved gold rim. On the face, arrangements of various vegetables, including cucumber, onion, porcini mushroom, water turnip, leek, and potato, rendered in soft-toned polychrome painting by Richard Edmund Flöricke (born 1877, active from 1892 to 1942 as a trained floral painter). Painter’s No.; inscribed in black on the reverse; scepter and painter’s mark. Diameter 22 cm.

Five decorative plates with soft vegetable motifs by Richard Flöricke. Round, slightly concave shape with a gracefully curved gold rim. On the face, arrangements of various vegetables, including cucumber, onion, porcini mushroom, water turnip, leek, and potato, rendered in soft-toned polychrome painting by Richard Edmund Flöricke (born 1877, active from 1892 to 1942 as a trained floral painter). Painter’s No.; inscribed in black on the reverse; scepter and painter’s mark. Diameter 22 cm. See Dietz, Sabet Collection, p. 490. Provenance: From the dissolution of a private collection in Berlin. A set of five porcelain plates finely painted with vegetables by R. E. Flöricke. Painter’s No.; Sceptre and painter’s mark. KPM-Berlin. Circa 1900.