Lot 449
A Good Continental Porcelain Plaque, mid-19th c., depicting a young maiden drawing water (probably "Rebecca at the Well"), elaborately and interestingly framed in a highly carved evocation of the Levantine setting of the well, with a palm tree overhanging a ruined Classical structure entwined with ivy and other vegetation, fitted with gilt liner and a table-top support, old paper label en verso of plaque giving name of "Gretchen Krug", together with pencil inscription with (artist's?) name "Harris de Cobourg", total height 21 1/4 in., width 10 1/2 in., depth 3 in. Note: An almost identical ensemble of c. 1870 (with variations of detail in the frame, enclosing a plaque of a "Young Tambourine Girl" by Bouguereau) is in the National Society of Colonial Dames collection at Haywood Hall, Raleigh, NC; The Magazine Antiques, vol. 172, no. 1 (July 2007), p. 72.
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