Lot 209
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a pair of large berlin (KPM) porcelain painted plaques of Rembrandt's Parents late 19/early 20th century

Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • the plaques height 16 7/8 in.; width 13 3/8 in.
  • 43 cm; 34 cm
both finely painted, one with a shoulder-length portrait of an elderly Seventeenth century woman, the other of an elderly man, impressed KPM mark beneath a sceptre and the letter H, paper label on the back of both giltwood frames, Bequest of Roger P. Clark, White Art Museum, Corneil University. Set within an antique carved giltwood frame.

Catalogue Note

The present pair of porcelain plaques are painted after the original portraits by the Old Master painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) which critics believe to be portraits of his parents.