Austrian Turn Wien Ernst Wahliss figure of Desdemona with polychrome enamels and gilding. Depose EW Turn Wien Made in Austria stamped on the reverse used in 1897-1906.
Height 25cm,
Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who infuriates and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she runs off with Otello, a Moorish military prodigy from Venice. When her husband is sent to Cyprus in the service of the Venetian Republic, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated into believing she is an adulteress, and in the final act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse.
The role has attracted famous actresses for centuries.
