Birth or Baptismal Medal

Modeled by Daniel Friedrich Loos, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin

About 1800

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Soft-paste porcelain figure of a so-called "Mansion House Dwarf" or "Dwarf Crier" standing in full figure on a round, grassy base and wearing black trousers and shoes, pink vest with floral motifs, a brown waist band, blue sleeves and stockings, and a large Dutch cap with upturned brim, ribbons and gold highlights, the underside in purple lustre and with an advertising newsprint on the up turned brim of the hat advertising farm implements.
Obverse: Bust in profile right.
Large caneware "fish" bowl or planter, the body bulbous and enameled with a pattern of stylized Chinese flowers and birds in shades of red, green, blue, and gold, with two lion mask handles, the flared lip enameled in a diaper pattern with three cartouches with stylized foliage, the interior glazed and decorated with a variety of fish.
Delicate, flat, shallow dish of rough, reddish brown stoneware covered with a mottled, bright blue glaze that is thin in spots, revealing the color of the clay beneath, the foot and bottom are unglazed.