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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 332696, member: 5833&quot;]If I understand the page on the KPM site that we are taken to by the great link provided by SIS, Hutschenreuther did not make a finished product, they provided blank plaques to a number of porcelain firms, such as KPM, where they were decorated, so I would look to the porcelain companies for the choice of subject.&nbsp; Since I don&#039;t know which other ones to look at, have looked at KPM plaques &amp; see lots of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, the <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/enlightenment-revolution/a/vige-le-brun-self-portrait" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/enlightenment-revolution/a/vige-le-brun-self-portrait" rel="nofollow">self portrait of Vigée-LeBrun</a>, other pretty &amp; romantic subjects.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with all of AJ&#039;s observations &amp; can&#039;t rule out her suggestion about the nature of the tale referenced.&nbsp; There is certainly something Odin-esque about the walking man.&nbsp; However, I don&#039;t think this artist had any concern for anything like historical accuracy in the clothing; seriously doubt there has ever been foot wear such as that on the regal male.&nbsp; How is the red drapery swirling around the girl attached?</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2 women inside the building looking diffidently on the scene do look a lot like priestesses.&nbsp; If the structure is a temple rather than a residence, I have even less idea of what is taking place.&nbsp; I wondered about the roses too.&nbsp; For now am regarding them, along with the carpet, simply as one more indicator of luxury, &amp; a way of saying the air smells sweet, unlike in the outer world.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mountains in the distant background look a lot like Mt. Vesuvius.&nbsp; Have seen many amusing cameos that show Cupid or a goddess engaged in some activity on the far shore of the Bay of Naples, Vesuvius behind them, a touch of local color by the cutter.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one more realm that supplied the imagery of the period, a realm in which I have very little knowledge: romantic poetry.&nbsp; I have a print that was something my grandmother had but that I never saw hung with what bizarrely seems to have been very popular at one time.&nbsp; It is a reproduction of a <a href="http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-31098" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-31098" rel="nofollow">painting by John White Alexander</a>, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Art, inspired by a poem of John Keats, <i>Isabella, or the Pot of Basil</i>, taken from Boccaccio.&nbsp;&nbsp; I more &amp; more think we are looking at something like this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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