Cupid and Ganymede Playing Dice, Modeled after a relief (1831) by Bertel Thorwaldsen, Ilsenburg, cast iron

Cupid and Ganymede Playing Dice

Modeled after a relief (1831) by Bertel Thorwaldsen, Ilsenburg

Second quarter of the 19th century

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Black jasper button with white relief portraits of four martyred presidents (Lincoln, Kennedy, Grafield and McKinley) with signature facsimiles beneath each. Made by Marie La Barre Bennett. Marie created studio art pottery between 1953 and her death in 1969 after which all of her moulds were destroyed.
Image is of group of eight, two were given by Iris Buten Newman in 2011 (see AFI 1006.2011.1-.2), the balance belong to Bebe and Pete Magee
Small footed bowl of white stoneware covered on the outside with a fresh, smooth grass-green glaze and on the inside with a contrasting yellowish-brown glaze that tapers to brown at the well, the outer body decorated around with three bands in a geometric pattern made using the roulette wheel and highlighted in brown glaze.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, black basalt with glazed interior