Candlestick

Germany

1830-40

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Small cast-iron cross pendant, each of the arms three-part, in the form of Gothic tracery motifs, the central medallion is in the form of a gold-mounted rosette.
Covered urn of solid white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, ovoid in shape and resting on a square plinth decorated with palmettes, the round foot with a band of laurel leaves, the body heavily decorated with stylized leafy motifs, arabesques of scrolls, flowers and leaves, and a band of ribbon entwined with ivy leaves, the thick round cover with green dip on both sides, on one a large cupid finial, the other side appears as if it might have originally had some sort of finial also.
Tall, hard-paste porcelain vase of campana shape, the upper body with white biscuit bas-relief figures against a glazed green ground, the figures include King Friedrich Augustus I of Saxony (1750-1827) dressed as a Roman emperor; he is flanked by the figures of Justice on his right, and Minerva on his left; on the opposite side of the vase is the figure of a Roman vestal, representing the state of Saxony, pouring oil on sacrificial flames on an altar inscribed with the dates of the king's reign; at her feet lies an overflowing cornucopia as well as war trophies and emblems of the seven liberal arts; the bulbous lower body heavily gilt with two handles and a series of applied acanthus leaves of white biscuit porcelain, the foot with central decorative element of green glazed porcelain with small, applied, white biscuit leaves, the lower splayed foot a series of channels
White jasper button with blue relief floral decoration