Erato, Muse of Song, Dance, and Amorous Poetry, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron

Erato, Muse of Song, Dance, and Amorous Poetry

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1800

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Large cylindrical creamware mug with pointed loop handle, shape number 3810 by Keith Murray, covered with a matt moonstone glaze, with commemorative design for South African Game Series. An antelope head is printed in black ink on one side. On the other side of the mug is a multi-color printed map of South Africa with animals that are popular to each region represented, a green laurel border, and antelope head above the map. Beneath the map is a yellow banner that reads, "SUID-AFRIKA; SOUTH AFRICA".
Ladies’ covered paint box of light blue and white jasperware, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with a blue jasper holder with twelve holes to hold paint cups and fourteen small white jasper paint cups.
Bust right with pearls in hair, diadem, and ermine mantle, whose chain rests on the breast. Luise was the wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.
Obverse: Cherub with basket in landscape and cornucopia at feet. Reverse with inscription.