Pâte-sur-pâte and underglaze painting by Meissen Runde, lightly molded form with smooth rim. In the center, a large-scale depiction of five dancing girls in summery, fluttering dresses in a park-like landscape. In the background, a monumental Meissen crater vase with a figure of Psyche, a female head, and putto, as well as an antique-style frieze depicting Alexander the Great with his friend Hephaestion visiting the family of the defeated Persian king Darius. Decor - possibly by Rudolf Hentschel. Fine, polychrome, pastel-toned underglaze and pâte-sur-pâte painting. Form number G 177. Sword mark. Round stucco frame with elaborately designed, colorfully painted and gilded wreath made of autumn fruits. Plate diameter 34 cm. Rare, charming, scenic representation, exemplary for the pâte-sur-pâte technique on Meissen porcelain. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Académie Julian in Paris, Rudolf Hentschel (1869 Cölln - 1951 Meissen) joined the Meissen manufactory as a painter in 1895. He created numerous designs for landscape, plant, and figurative representations, as well as tableware forms and full-bodied figures. Together with his brother Konrad Hentschel, he was involved in the development of Meissen Jugendstil porcelain. His father Julius Hentschel played a decisive role in the development of the innovative pâte-sur-pâte technique in the manufactory from 1880 onwards. See Just, Meissener Jugendstilporzellan, No. 7, 10, 18, 45, p. 156; Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 19. und 20. Jhs., p. 149; Carl Meissner, Meissener Porzellane von neuer Art, in Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, 2, 1898, fig. 215 (comparable decor). A rare Art Nouveau porcelain wall plate with a figural scene of dancing girls painted in "pâte-sur-pâte" with polychrome underglaze painting, designed probably by R. Hentschel. In the background, a depiction of a Meissen porcelain vase with Psyche figure and frieze of Alexander the Great with family of the Persian king Darius. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1900.
