A Vienna, Sorgenthal, soup plate with 'Etruscan' decoration, circa 1798
The rim with four panels depicting friezes of Classical figures in Greek red Attic style alternating with elaborate gilt panels depicting urns and surrounded by dark blue-ground bands with gilt scrollwork, the edge of the well with a gilt foliate border with anthemion, 24.8cm diam., shield mark in underglaze-blue, impressed date mark 98 and impressed 'Weissdreher' numeral für Johann Fasching
Footnotes:
Like many other porcelain manufactories of the period, the Vienna manufactory was inspired by the exciting excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii and started producing pieces after the Antique around 1785, such as amphoras and crater vases. In the 1790s they branched out to full services decorated in a style mistakenly called 'Etruscan' ('hetrurisch'). See J. Kräftner (ed.), Prachtware: Porzellane des Klassizismus aus dem Marton Museum in Zagreb, exhibition catalogue, Liechtenstein Museum (2010), pp.33-41, for further details and various examples of this style of decoration.

Another example from the same service is in the Princely Collections of Liechtenstein, inventory number PO 2075. A plate with the same rim decoration but with a grisaille panel depicting classical figures was in the Twinight Collection and is illustrated in S. Wittwer, Raffinesse und Eleganz (2007), p.230, no. 49.

Overall generally in very good condition.

There are a few scattered tiny losses to the small gilt dots on the gilt borders of the plate and some tiny minor losses to gilt details of the border around the edge of the well.