Small trumpet vase of white hard-paste porcelain made to commemorate World War I, the front decorated in underglaze blue with the image of a radiant Iron Cross and the date 1914, the reverse with a small three-leaf oak branch and acorn below the date 1914-1916, with narrow blue bands below the lip, around the lower body, and at the foot.

Commemorative Vase

Royal Porcelain Manufactory Meissen

1916

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Unidentified Figure, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Tall, irregularly shaped bowl of reddish stoneware, Raku-fired creating a scorched, blackish-gray chalky surface, below the rim a series of diagonal lines extending around the body, the interior black.
Tall vase of red earthenware covered inside and out with an opaque white glaze that runs thick and thin over the piece revealing the structure of the vase below, the rim left glaze-free, with flecks and speckles throughout.
Cast-iron clasp, probably for a necklace, the border pierced with beading, in the middle an oval medallion with a cherub adapted from Raphael's Sistine Madonna, on a polished steel plate.