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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Small enameled copper bonbonnière in the form of a walnut, with metal mounts.
Oval green jasper medallion with white relief of Hercules and the nemean lion
Small cast-iron cuff link, or button, star-shaped with eight points pierced with foliate motifs, the central medallion with a rosette set in gold.
Large round, self-framed wall plaque, or roundel, of black basalt with the image of a Centaur teaching Achilles the kithara in relief against a red encaustic ground, framed by a reeded border with criss-cross ribbons and fluted cavetts.