It is my pleasure to offer you this magnifcent collectors plate produced by Heinrich Porzellan in Selb, nowadays a subsidiary of Villeroy & Boch in Mettlach Germany.

This series is called: Fairy Tales of Old Russia and have been designed by Gero Trauth in 1986.

Gero Trauth was born in 1942 in Silesia (Poland). At the age of 14 he already won first prizes in an international painting contests. He studied Arts, Graphics and Design at the Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
His creations reach from faience paintings, cloth collections, light programs, cutlery and flower pots up to high-grade steel, ceramic(s) and furniture designs for well-known enterprises. In 1984 he began a successful and extremely productive co-operation with Villeroy & Boch designing art editions, motives for fairy tale collections, designs for service and gift articles and motives for the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and the German Cancer Foundation.

"His poetic illustrations are extremely discriminating impressios, which are loved all over the world. The abundance and diversity of its precious representations reach from sensitive interpretations of the world literature with fascinating gilded representations up to dreamlike erotic 1001 nights scenes. Trauths ability for transformation has a formidable potential to kidnap us in an Apollonian way from the banality of the everyday life.".

This Fairy Tales of Old Russia were issued in a limited edition.

The following plates have been produced:

• #1. Tsar Bear
• #2. Morozko
• #3. Tsar Saltan
• #4. The Stoneflower
• #5. Rusean und Ludmilla
• #6. Alyonuschka

This is plate of #3, Bradex Number 22-H.18-13.3.

AGE: 1986

DIMENSIONS: Diameter is 8.5 inches (21 cm).

CONDITION: EXCELLENT. This plate is in PERFECT condition. No cracks, chips, flakes or any other flaws. A real treasure for any TOP QUALITY COLLECTORS PLATE Collection.