Antique Royal Vienna Porcelain Cabinet Plate Painting by Angelica Kauffman 1890 Sculpture Ferdinando de Luca (also known

Ferdinando de Luca (also known as Francesco de Luca) was an Italian sculptor working  in the later part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century

The top having cut corners with a band of blue around the rim

the painting is housed in a contemporary Dutch ripple style frame with a gilded border

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the composition is in pencil and charcoal with pastel & gouache on handmade paper

Antique Royal Vienna Porcelain Cabinet Plate Painting by Angelica Kauffman 1890 Sculpture Ferdinando de Luca (also knownA fine antique Austrian Royal Vienna handpainted & gilded porcelain cabinet plate, circa 1890. To the center of the plate is a handpainted scene of Odysseus's wife Penelope being awakend by Odysseus's nurse Eurycleia, the scene taken from Homer's epic "The Odyssey". The decoration is after the 18th century painting by Angelica Kauffman. The border having six pink glazed panels finely decorated with raised gilding and punctuated with claret colored