This model is based on Rauch's monument for Friedrich II in Berlin.

Friedrich II, King of Prussia Horseback (1712-86; reigned from 1740) on Horseback

Based on a model by Christian Daniel Rauch

1840-50

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Tall, bottle-shaped potpourri vase, of white stoneware covered with a blue glaze and a clear pearl glaze, the main body with a pattern of blue and white stripes below a blue band with molded white swags hanging from ribbons, below this a band of beading and above a band of checkerboard pattern, with two covers, one with flat shoulder and pierced with eight large and eight smaller holes, with long striped neck, the other a small, domed, stripped cover with ball finial is a facsimile.
Fieldmarshal Bluecher, Germany, iron
Pair of urn-shaped potpourri vases on round foot, of white stoneware covered with a black glaze under a clear pearl glaze, the lower bodies with gadrooning below a band of beading, with a band of white swags held by ribbons below a checkerboard pattern at the shoulder, the covers with a series of large and small holes and an elongated neck that has similar gadrooning, the domed cover with ball finial.
Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior base was first glazed a mustard/khaki color that is mostly covered by brushes of dark and light brown glaze, most prominent around the center of the vase. There are splotchy areas of brown o nthe upper half the vase. Around the vase's lip and its base are rings of brown glaze. The exterior has impressed, horizontal lines around the vase's form, irregular in both size and placement on the form. The vase's interior and lip are glazed dark green, with a dripping glaze in the interior.