A large mythological KPM porcelain painted plaque Berlin, late 19th/early 20th century

signed lower right C^{t. Meinelt}, the reverse with impressed KPM beneath a sceptre and lette F, incised measument 25-20.

Set in a carved and composition giltwood frame. Overall in good condition with the usual minor scratches. Wear to edges consistent with framing and dirt in places. There are age cracks to the frame and restoration and losses to gilding now showing gesso.
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The scene depicted is taken from the book of Judges, found in bible.  In this story, Jephtah asks God to grant him victory over the House of Ammon, and in return, Jephtah vows to offer God a sacrifice of the first thing that greets him when he returns home.  Jephtah's daughter is the first to greet her father.  After accepting her father's vow, she asks that she be given two months in the wilderness to mourn that she will never marry, and leaves with her companions.  'And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.' (Judges 11:39-40).