Emperor Constantine Receives a Germanic King Royal Prussian Iron Foundry Gleiwitz cast iron

Emperor Constantine Receives a Germanic King

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1800

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A two handled vase Keith Murray shape 4225 in two tone slipware Celadon green slip on body with cream handles and foot The handles are upturned and looped and placed at the lower body near the foot The body flares at the mouth and tapers toward the foot
Bust three quarters front
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase now in the British Museum in slate blue gray jasper with white jasper relief decoration the two handled vase in the shape of an amphora one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent draped female figure holding a sea serpent above her is a flying Cupid holding his bow and arrows to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump his chin in his right hand which is resting on his knee on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure a draped recumbent female lying on the rocky base looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure underneath each handle is a bearded mask the base with the image of a cloaked figure head lowered wearing a wrapped headdress with right arm raised to face in the background foliage The white jasper used for the relief decoration has been given a blue tint prior to being pressed into the molds
Hercules and Omphale Royal Prussian Iron Foundry Gleiwitz cast iron