porcelain, sides with fine gold edges, golden pearl lines, light green edges, glossy gold painted foliate friezes on matte golden bands, wide border with gold-painted foliate tendrils, ivy festoons and fruit, groove with glossy golden chains on matte golden bands, well with colour-painted depiction, Amor standing on shell shape wagon, holding the reins in his left hand and being drawn by two butterflies, holding an arrow in his right hand, before brown ground, dia. 24.5 cm, underside of edge with minor restoration, Vienna, Imperial Manufaktur, underglaze blue Bindenschild coat of arms, year 1796, turner number 12 Franz Schwaiger 1785-1804 (Ru)

This depiction follows a gouache on cardboard, following a design by Raffael, 1483- 1520, from the bathroom of Cardinal Bibiena, 1513-1620, in the Vatican, Rome. This gouache was created by Michelangelo Maestri, 1750-1812 Rome. His very decorative gouaches feature motifs of the Antique spaces in Pompeii and Herculaneum that had been discovered shortly before or are based on designs by Raffael and his student Giulio Romano, as in this case. Raffaelo Santi, Urbino 6.4.1483-6.4.1520 Rome, Italy. Painter and master builder, called to Rome by Papst Juluis II and made head builder of St Peter's church by Leo X in 1515 as well as conservator of Antique memorials.

See Lit.:
W. Mrazek, W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, MAK Vienna 1970, p 171, plate 90;