Bust in profile left. This may be modeled after a design for the Luther Monument in Wittenberg.

Martin Luther (1483-1546), German Reformer

Model possibly by Wilhelm August Stilarsky, After a design by Johann Gottfried Schadow, Royal Prussian Iron Foundries

About 1817

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Round blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Thrasybulus (440-388BC) facing right, He was an Athenian general and democratic leader. His public career began in 411 BC, when he frustrated oligarchic rising in Samos . Elected general by the troops, he effected the recall of Alcibiades, a former general accused of having profaned the hermae of Athens. and assisted him in several successful naval campaigns. In 404, when exiled by the Thirty , he retired to Thebes. In the following winter with 70 men, he seized Phyle, a hill fort on Mt. Parnes near Athens. His supporters soon grew so with 1,000 men, he repelled an attack by the oligarchs. In autumn 403, following skirmishes with a Spartan expedition under King Pausanias, a reconciliation was effected and democracy was restored.
Wedgwood bone china floral brooch with a blue and pink flower against green leaves on a metal mount
Omphale with the Lion Skin and Club of Hercules, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
White, unglazed stoneware figure of a standing nude woman, her right leg slightly bent and her body leaning slightly backwards, both hands resting on a stylized plant for support, her hair slightly rolled and shoulder length, and her gaze directed to the right.