Bowl

Emmanuel Cooper

1998

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Pipe bowl of dark blue jasper dip with white relief decoration that includes a floral garland around the upper edge and leafy vines and berries around the shank, the lower reservoir is missing, on the main body the relief image of a winged cupid with a dove in a landscape.
Octagonal lustre bowl with bronze exterior and mottled pearlized blue interior, fruit designs. Four of the eight fields on the outside of the bowl are decorated with larger fruit arrangements. a) grapes (purple glaze), a pear (orange/yellow glaze), leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. b) grapes (purple glaze), two peaches (orange/yellow glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. c) grapes (purple glaze), an apricot (orange/yellow glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. d) grapes (purple glaze), three mirabelles (orange/yellow glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. These designs are alternated with individual fruit designs. a) a strawberry (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. b) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. c) a blackberry (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. d) an apricot (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. A rope-like pattern decorates the upper rim of the outside of the bowl. The inside has a mother-of-pearl glaze with a geometric, gilded pattern along the upper rim of the bowl with a red glaze. In the inside there are six individual fruits equally distributed throughout the bowl, halfway up the side. a) a strawberry (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. b) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. c) a raspberry (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. d) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. e) an apricot (orange/yellow/red glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. f) a plum (purple glaze), and leaves (green glaze), gilding used to outline the design. The bottom of the bowl is decorated with three large strawberries (orange/yellow/red glaze), leaves (green glaze), and two strawberry blossoms (one green, one blue glaze), gilding used to outline the design.
Small oval medallion of dark blue jasperware with white jasper relief of an enslaved African man wearing only a loin cloth, kneeling and in shackles, with his hands grasped together, around him the inscription AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?
View of the Berlin-Hamburg railway station.