Cupid Riding Pegasus Royal Prussian Iron Foundry Gleiwitz Modeled after a cut stone by Giovanni Pichler cast iron

Cupid Riding Pegasus

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, Modeled after a cut stone by Giovanni Pichler

About 1800

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Large heavy round bowl of reddish brown stoneware with flat bottom and covered with a creamy opaque glaze the rim brown the body of the bowl with a pattern of two rows of greenish gray rectangles each tilted and meeting at opposite corners to form diamond patterns in between
Bust in profile right in uniform with sash in large cast iron frame
Deep round footed bowl of red earthenware the sides are decorated with an alternating pattern of horizontal lines and stylized sheaves of wheat the bright blue glaze of the body the foot is left unglazed pools in the crevices of the design to leave the color of the clay visible on the raised portions the glaze also thins at the rim to reveal the color of the clay beneath
Bust in profile right in uniform