A BERLIN GREEN-GROUND CABINET-PLATE

A BERLIN GREEN-GROUND CABINET-PLATE
CIRCA 1810, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, INCISED 16/III, PAINTER'S DARK-GREEN LOZENGE MARK
Painted with itinerant Commedia dell'Arte actors performing on an open-air make-shift stage, with Scaramouche on the stage explaining the characters before Harlequin peeping out of the curtains behind, Mezzetin seated playing a guitar on the bench in front, a monkey perched on the scenery and a dog lurking beneath the stage, before an audience of locals and distant ruins, within a gilt-edged panel on a gold ground burnished with foliage scrolls, the border with a band of stiff-leaves within a matt-green band with stylised gilt flowers and foliage, gilt line rim (very minor scratching and wear to gilt ground)
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diam.