Cupid Sets Stone on Fire, Modeled after a relief (1831) by Bertel Thorwaldsen, Ilsenburg, cast iron

Cupid Sets Stone on Fire

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

Second quarter of the 19th century

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Heavy, bulbous vase with wide mouth made of beige stoneware and covered with a thick black glaze over brown and with a semi-transparent gray glaze over the shoulder and running down the sides through which appear flecks of goldish brown and tan, the glaze flecked throughout with bits of clay, the foot left glaze free.
Plaster cast of the New Year's card with a view of the Monastery St. Geron in Cologne.
Bust in profile left in uniform with the Order of the Black Eagle, with ermine mantle.
Three-piece bough-pot garniture of creamware covered with a pearl glaze, each of D-shape with convex fronts and flat backs, each resting on three ball feet, the bodies decorated only on the front with silver resist lustre in a pattern of three arches decorated with typical Leeds-style birds and foliage, with a border of repeating circles above, the covers pierced with both large and small holes, with urn-shaped finials.