Enameled copper etui with a bright green ground and white reserves framed by gold scrolled elements, inside each is painted with colorful garden flowers, with gilt metal mounts.

Etui

Bilston

About 1770

See More of the Collection

In an arch with tracery above and below sits a female figure—the patron goddess of industry—among products of the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry Sayn—urns, cannon and cannon balls, machine parts, and architectural elements—as an allegory of the iron industry, wearing a crown in the form of a foundry oven, in her left hand she holds a tablet with a crown and the initials "FWE" (ligated) and the year "1826," her right hand holds a stylus, with which she points to the tablet, at her feet is the name of the foundry "Saynerhutte" and a small shield, below the main scene is a band of quatrefoil motifs.
Head in profile left.
Obverse: A young man attempting to catch the fleeing Chronos (with bill hook). Reverse: A figure being carried by the winged Chronos.
Urn of black basalt on thick, square plinth decorated with bands of palmettes, with round foot with band of overlapping acanthus leaves, the otherwise plain, urn-shaped body with exaggerated leafy garlands with clusters of berries where they meet, in the center on one side a molded medallion with the Three Graces, with two pistol handles that terminate in leafy spreads, the neck and shoulder fluted and with a band of beading around the lip, the cover a facsimile.