porcelain, the oval body with gilt and white rim, burnished gilt ground with matt gilt painted rosettes, palmettes and acanthus leaves, octagonal matt gilt picture frame with matt gilt arch frieze, containing the polychrome painted scene: ”Les filles d’Eréstée. D’aprés lé Dessein de Mr. Caucig, Professeur de l’Academie J. R. des arts á Vienne”, verso with inscription, signed on the bottom right K. Herr, 32,5 x 41,5 cm, underside with wide gilt edging,
Vienna, Imperial Manufactory, underglaze blue Austrian shield, date 1803, Sorgenthal Era, turner P Anton Payer (Ru)

Lit. cf.: "Große Internationale Glas und Porzellan Auktion Dorotheum Wien, 10.4.2014, Lot 1088, Moritz Michael Daffinger - A Pictorial Plate, “Les filles de Cecrops, D’apres le Dessin de Mons. Caucig, Professor de l’Academie J. R. des arts á Vienne”;

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Thieme-Becker, XVI, p 532: Claudius Herr, miniature painter etc., son of Johann, (b. Vienna 1775), up to 1806 mainly small pieces (such as dejeuners), from 1806 in particular plates with the entire well decorated with a painting, often mythological scenes, from 1816 serving platters and porcelain panels based on old masters. Emperor Franz enjoyed giving his work as gifts, with many ending up in England. Many of his pieces are in public or private collections. At the Vienna Porcelain Exhibition of 1904, he participated with a 1834 portrait of Emperor Ferdinand I.