Antique Hand-Painted Porcelain Portrait Plaque — Vestal Virgin with Lamp, After Romney - KPM Attributed photo frame and golden yellow

and golden yellow

Despite operating for just twenty-four years

The plates features a turquoise “bleu céleste” ground & heavy raised gold gilt

Classic decorative dog motif

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Antique Hand-Painted Porcelain Portrait Plaque — Vestal Virgin with Lamp, After Romney - KPM Attributed photo frame and golden yellowShe keeps the flame, or once did a young vestal drawn from George Romneys beloved portrait of Lady Hamilton, veiled in gauze so fine the porcelain seems to breathe through it. Painted by hand in the manner of KPM Berlin, she has that quiet, faraway look the 19th century loved: half priestess, half daydream. The kind of piece that asks for a shelf of blue and white and a little candlelight. Romantic without trying, and impossible to walk past. Size: