Bust.

Abraham Gottlob Werner (1750-1817), Prussian Mining Inspector and Professor of Mineralogy and Mining Technology at the Freiberg Mining Academy

Modeled by Johann Carl Friedrich Riese, After a portrait by Gerhard von Kügelgen, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1817

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Obverse: Cherub with basket in landscape and cornucopia at feet. Reverse with inscription.
Miniature basalt spill vase with relief frieze on body
Censer, or incense burner, of white stoneware covered with brown glaze under a clear pearl glaze, drum shaped with a series of vertical white stripes around the body and gilt floral garlands held by rams' heads with gilt paterae between, with flat perforated cover with a central opening in the form of a two-handled bowl, likewise with vertical white stripes.
Oval white jasper cameo with relief scene of five figures under a tree