9.5\" Austrian Porcelain Plate w/ Portrait of Princess Louise - Gilt Frame
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9.5\" Austrian Porcelain Plate w/ Portrait of Princess Louise - Gilt Frame:
$239.00
A lovely portrait of Queen Louise on a nicely decorated plate. The plate measures 9 1/2 inches across. There are no chips, cracks, or crazing on this plate. There is wear to the gold decoration around the edge of the plate, and to the ring of gold framing the portrait. The burgundy areas appear to be hand painted-you can see where the paint has been overlapped. This plate is marked \"Imperial, PSL, Alma, Austria\" - this mark indicates the plate was made between 1914 - 1918.Queen Louise - 1776- 1810 Princess Louise was born on March 10, 1776 in Hanover, Germany, the daughter of Prince Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Early in 1792, when Louise was 16, her uncle, hoping to strengthen the ties between his family and the Prussian royal family, carefully plotted a meeting between Louise and Crown Prince Frederick William III. The plan worked, and they married. The Prince became King when his father died in 1797, and the beautiful and family-oriented Louise saw it as her duty to support her husband in all his endeavors. Meanwhile, the nation was charmed by the young Queen\'s grace, beauty, and wit. Historians have commented that Queen Louise was Prussian nationalism personified. In 1804, with Napoleon\'s increasing violations of Prussian treaty rights, Louise (formerly ignorant of foreign policy) began to argue with King Frederick over his long-standing position of neutrality, pleading with him to break off all relations with the French Emperor. She took the initiative of contacting the Tsar of Russia and Emperor of Austria, both of whom, along with Frederick, signed the Potsdam Treaty on November 3, 1805--a treaty which allied these three nations against Napoleon. Napoleon termed Louise \"My beautiful enemy\" for her role in forming this alliance. Napoleon eventually gained the upper hand over his enemies in battle. In 1807, both Louise and the King were forced to meet with Napoleon in person at Tilsit in Russia to sign a peace treaty. The stipulations of the treaty for Prussia were humiliating, and Louise felt discouraged. However, recognizing that her country depended upon her for moral strength, Louise regained her sense of optimism. She spoke of preparing her eldest son for the throne, even as Napoleon gutted her country. Louise died on July 17th, 1810 from an unidentified illness. Sadly, she did not live to see either Napoleon\'s defeat in 1815, or the reestablishment of the Germanic Empire under Prussia just a few years later.
9.5\" Austrian Porcelain Plate w/ Portrait of Princess Louise - Gilt Frame:
$239.00