A Berlin cabinet plate circa 1803-13

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Description

sceptre mark in underglaze-blue, painter's mark - in blue, S. in iron-red inside footrim, impressed numeral and marks, painted inventory number 406/9 3. and stencilled Gothic initials B-C. in iron-red
24cm., 9 1/2 in.

painted with a named scene of Alcibiade surpris par Socrate, titled in black on the reverse, within a gilt border against a blue marbled ground to the well, the rim with a border of gilt vases alternating with foliate motifs against a salmon-pink ground