An antique Austrian Royal Vienna decorative hand painted porcelain charger plate with a central picture after A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin. The group represents the perpetual cycle of the human condition: Poverty, Labour, Wealth and Pleasure. The dancers are accompanied on the lyre by the winged figure of Time. Signed below the image: Bauer pinx. Richly decorated to the rim with a gilt foliate design on a red ground. Inscribed lower Die Vier Jahreszeiten, or The Four Seasons, as translated in English. Features an incised number 98 1, to the bottom. Circa the late 19th century. Antique Austrian Decorative Plates And Porcelain Collectibles.