Simple, silver oval dish and domed cover with beaded edge, with two hinged handles of modified heart shape, the cover with wooden ball knop, engraved on the interior lip of the body and on one side of the cover, a demi-lion rampant holding a shield with pile and hatchings (unidentified).

Covered Dish

Hester Bateman, London, England

1785-1786

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Oval black basalt intaglio, two-sided with cypher on one ("W S"), and Benjamin Franklin on the other
Bust almost front, the head in profile left.
Johann Heinrich Kureck was an animal sculptor at Mägdesprung after 1843. This model was also cast at Kasli Iron Works in Ekaterinenburg about 1870 and at Mägdesprung with the horse enclosed in a small pen.
Necklace comprised of delicate elements of iron filigree, the links of graduated sizes in the shape of circles and ovals, at each end a rosette, the clasp a cast-iron oval, pierced medallion with rosebush motif.