Bowl

Tim Andrews

1999

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Cast iron portrait medallion modeled in high relief with the image of Gebhard Leberecht Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt (1742-1819), Prussian field marshal, in profile left in Prussian general's uniform with military medals including the Iron Cross, the National Order of Merit, and the Order of the Black Eagle.
Cast-iron cross pendant with Jesus on the cross, each arm decorated in relief with scrolling motifs, the upper arm terminating in a winged cherub, with the inscription "INRI" above.
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Charles V (1500-1558), was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1506. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia. As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets"
Shallow bowl of creamy beige stoneware with a wide rim that is decorated with a stylized leafy pattern, covered with an opaque greenish glaze that varies in shades from light to dark and is flecked brown throughout, occasionally allowing the clay body to show through.