Platter "Allegory of the Night"

Silver-plated uncoated metal alloy, glass; height 33 cm; diameter of platter 25 cm.
Germany, late 19th century.
Platter on a strongly exalted, domed base, imitating piled clouds, with a plastic crescent in the background, on which sits, in a graceful pose, a young woman in an airy, transparent dress, with her right hand raised, which supports the plate of the platter made of crystal glass, polished into a rosette composed of symmetrically arranged ovals and triangles imitating flower petals.