Bowl

Jens Hostrup

1997

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Bust almost front, the head in profile right. Inscription on reverse.
Dish, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Oval white jasper medallion with green relief of Melpomene was one of the nine muses originally the goddess of music, song and dance before being named the muse of tragedy potrayed holding a tragic mask or sword often wearing a wreath of Ivy and wearing cothurnus boots.
In central square panel the Neue Wache in Berlin, designed 1817-18 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the cast-iron bridge over the Operngraben; in the upper left corner a monument in the form of an obelisk for Johann Gottlieb Fichte, erected at the Oranienburger Tor cemetery in Berlin; in the lower left corner a monument for Count Wilhelm von Schwerin in the Krekow church; at right a monument in the form of a tall obelisk with four lions on the base for the Russian Prince Kutusow, erected in Bunzlau, designed by Schinkel, the lions after models by Johann Gottfried Schadow.