Art Nouveau Castle Scene Plate #1

This is a stunning plate made by KPM in the early 20th century during WWI. It is very much in the Art Nouveau / Jugendstil style of the period and is hand painted with a scene in the center of a spring landscape scene including a castle on top of a hill, blooming trees in the front and some more buildings in the distance along a river. The castle is called Schönburg bei Oberwesel . It is a castle above the medieval town of Oberwesel in the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. The rim is nicely done as well not being the boring old kind but a bit wavy and a gold ring around the scene and some gold dots along the well edge make this a very elegant plate. Julius Menzel is best known for these kinds of scenes but the plate here is not signed. I have three more from this series and two are signed by him. The plate is in perfect condition. It is 0.625 inches tall and 7.875 inches in diameter and marked underneath with the under glaze blue scepter, the red orb mark, the black iron cross of the first World War, the number 50/39 in black, two artist marks, the usual impressed marks and also the title of the scene to the front. Die Schoenburg b. Obervesel. Please email me for more information or other pictures.