Bust front in uniform with sash and medals

Klemens Wenzel Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg (1773-1859), Austrian Statesman, 1803-06 Austrian Envoy to Berlin

Modeled by Leopold Heuberger, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1814/15

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Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Newton with a shooting star on the right with a blue background white portrait1642 1727 was an English natural philosopher and mathematician Newtons formulation of the law of gravity from observing the fall of an apple came in 1666 He went on to devise a reflecting telescope and study Descartes geometry His most important published work is the Principia mathematica of 1684 His Optics first appeared in 1704 He is buried in Westminster Abbey
Head in profile left in cast iron frame Born princess of Saxony Hildburghausen in 1810 married King Ludwig I of Bavaria
Round dark blue jasper medallion with white relief of Cupid shaving his bow broken and poorly repaired
Chatelaine Wedgwood stoneware jasperware and cut steel