Incense Burner

Gießerei F. L. Vombach

About 1850

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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".
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in miniature in solid black jasper with molded 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.
Oval black basalt intaglio, two-sided with profile portraits of bearded men on each side
Small enameled copper scent bottle in the form of a tulip bud with streaks of pink, yellow and purple, with gilt metal mounts.