Charger

China

About 1900

  • Titles Charger (Descriptive)
  • Artist China
  • Medium porcelain, Export ware
  • Dimensions Overall: 18 5/8 in. (47.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Summersell in honor of Norma J. Sims, 1990.269
  • Work Type charger
  • Classification Containers

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Small cast-iron statuette of Napoleon I Bonaparte in officer's uniform with bicorn, his arms crossed and right leg extended, knee slightly bent, resting on undecorated, tall plinth.
Very delicate, thin medallion of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip, on the front the relief scene of the Bourbonnais Shepherd.
Molded pearlware plate in the form of a scallop shell, painted in shades of brown, blue, yellow, green, red, and flesh tones with the figures of three putti reclining in a landscape with a tree on the right and flowering urn on the left, with vines of ivy leaves, one putti wears billowing red drapery and another wears blue drapery, edged in mustard yellow.
Wars of Liberation, 1813-15, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin, cast iron