VILLEROY & BOCH AG (est. 1748), Poster with allegory of maternal love

fine matte stoneware of the bisque pâte sur pâte porcelain type - so called phanolith;
chipping on the frame in the lower left corner; wooden frame;
dimensions: 21 x 15 cm, in frame: 24.3 x 17.6 cm;
in lower left corner on white field imprint; tied monogram (scene designer) and 79. (date: 1979);
signed on the back with impressions: in the rim: VILLEROY & BOCH - SEIT 1748 - MADE IN GERMANY, inside architectural motif - castle and date: 1979, below in cartouche: METTLACH / ges. gesch.; below: "LIEBE", LIM. ED. 10000, 4285 (limited edition piece number), Made in Germany.
Germany, Mettlach (Saarland), Villeroy & Boch AG, 1979.
Stoneware plaque, with a white relief representation on a dark blue background: an allegorical scene is inscribed in a thin slatted frame laced with ribbons and ribbon - a seated woman in a long robe, embraces and hugs a girl standing next to her.
The plaque was made using the Phanolith technique, combining features of porcelain with pâte sur pâte decoration and English Wedgwood jasper stoneware; the technology, which allows serial production while retaining handmade features, was developed in the late 19th century by Jean Baptiste Stahl, an artist-technologist employed by Villeroy & Boch.