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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Cast-iron plaque with a view of the new casting hall built in the neo-Gothic style at the Royal Hanover Iron Foundry at Königshütte, in self-cast and gilt frame with grape leaves and grapes.
Candleholder of black basalt in the form of a bearded, naked Triton with seaweed clinging to his thighs sitting atop a rocky base and holding in both hands a whorled conch shell that functions as the candleholder.
Small porcelain snuff box with gilt metal mounts, cartouche-shaped and painted around the exterior sides with figures in a continuous landscape and on the top of the lid with scenes of men on horseback in landscapes, the lid with an additional gilt shell-and-scroll border, the underside painted with a scene of ladies and gentlemen by a fountain, the interior lid decorated with the scene of an amorous couple in a landscape with servant, with gilt metal mounts.
Abundantia, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron