Ceramic plate, painted by hand, commemorating the author Isaac Leib Peretz (1851-1915), a leading Yiddish and Hebrew author and forefather of the revival of Hebrew literature.
Signed on the reverse D.S. and dated 1919.
The plate is richly painted. In the center appears a portrait of I. L. Peretz, surrounded by candles and topped with a Menorah and the inscription "ז"ל". On the margins appears an inscription in Yiddish: "ayner fun di greste dikhter fin der idisher literature" [one of the greatest authors of Yiddish literature].
Diameter: 24 cm. Good condition.