Bowl

Clara Andersen

1986

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Majolica bird-and-fan pattern garden seat with a burgundy glaze in the form of a tufted cushion with rope tassels atop a seat with an alternating bird, blossom and fan design in relief, with rope trim base.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in solid white jasper with dark blue dip and flat white relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a draped nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a draped nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask.
Solid light blue jasper vase with white jasper relief decoration, the so-called Michelangelo vase because the model is based on designs after the Italian artist Michelangelo, shape number 180, the vase or bowl with applied white floral festoons and arabesque floral motifs mounted atop the backs of three molded, white jasper classical figures draped in blue jasper, who appear to support the weight of the bowl, with a fluted column in the middle as support, on a triangular base.
Paperweight with a small recumbent lion with crossed paws on rectangular base.