PORCELAIN PAINTING "HAGAR AND ISMAEL IN THE DESERT".
KPM. Berlin.

19th century.
After a painting by the Czech painter Emanuel Krescenc Liska (1852-1903) from 1883.
Porcelain; painted with colours.
On rectangular panel desert scenery with red sky; coloured by the evening sun.
Hagar with folded hands; her gaze lifted pleading towards the sky; next to her dying son Ismael. Besides her a walking stick and a calabash bottle.
Measurement: Panel 34;5x20;5cm. Frame 40x54cm.
Mark: Scepter mark stamped as well as severall pressed or carved signs. On verso inscribed "C A R鰉hild Grossbreitenbach (Th黵ingen)" and "Made in Germany". On the lower right front corner n. E.K. Liska.
Art trade; Van Ham.