Antique Berlin KPM Hand-Painted Porcelain Plaque Portrait Young Gypsy Woman 1880 Mid-Century Modern A fine & rare 12th/13th

A fine & rare 12th/13th century ancient Persian Islamic vessel

The needlepoint is very finely and delicately rendered

the slanted paneled base is raised on a plinth base with corresponding gadrooning and the original brass casters

Yale Center for British Art

Antique Berlin KPM Hand-Painted Porcelain Plaque Portrait Young Gypsy Woman 1880 Mid-Century Modern A fine & rare 12th/13thA beautiful antique German hand painted Berlin KPM porcelain plaque, circa 1880. The plaque was produced by Knigliche Porzellan Manufaktur (which was the Royal porcelain factory in Germany from the mid 18th century onward), the plaque is very finely painted & depicts a beautiful young Romany female musician. She is shown wearing a red head scarf and a gold necklace and earrings, she stands holding onto a silver birch tree and is looking wistfully into