Cupid Sets Stone on Fire

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

Second quarter of the 19th century

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Creamware sweetmeat dish of a creamy yellowish color, shell-shaped with shell edge highlighted in magenta enamel, with shell scrolled handle likewise highlighted in magenta and a hand-painted magenta floral sprig in the well, resting on two stout conical feet.
Curved frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of four Dancing Hours figures on a thin ground that extends length of panel.
Black basalt vase of "pelike" shape in the Greek red-figure style decorated with an ancient Greek "theater scene" -- a costumed comic actor running with a torch in each hand followed by a classically dressed female playing a double flute -- in red enamel above a band of dash-and-zigzag pattern, the neck decorated with a band of stylized anthemion motifs and the lip with a modified egg-and-dart pattern, the foot and handles highlighted with a band of red enamel.
Covered urn of white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, on round foot with overlapping acanthus leaves around the edge, the lower body with acanthus leaf motifs, the main body divided into four reserves with decorative lattice work in between, each reserve with an applied white classical vignette, including Psyche bound by Cupids, Aurora in her Chariot, Cupid as Oracle, and Muses watering Pegasus, with a band of ivy leaves and ribbon just below the shoulder and with acanthus leaves around the neck and on the cover, with drop finial.