Match Holder

Germany

1820-30

  • Titles Match Holder (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 5 1/8 × 4 3/16 × 2 3/8 in. (13 × 10.7 × 6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Garbáty, 1962.120
  • Work Type match holder
  • Classification Sculpture

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Ladies’ covered paint box of solid light blue jasper with a darker blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with two white paint palettes (not original) and a solid blue jasper holder with twelve small white paint cups (also not original).
Round, cast-iron medallion with the portrait bust of Apostle John the Evangelist three-quarter right with his head facing front, his left arm rests on a book and in his left hand he holds a scroll, behind him on his right is a cup with a viper in it, his emblem, in memory of the challenge to him by a high priest of Diana at Ephesus to drink a poisoned cup
Octagonal brooch or buckle comprised of a dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of Coriolanus – Coriolanus with his wife and mother who entreat him to return to Rome – in a cut-steel mount of faceted steel beads set in circles with an outer band of smaller faceted steel beads.
Oval portrait medallion of white jasper laminated between two surfaces of dark blue jasper dip, the portrait of the King of Portugal in civilian dress with sash to front in white relief.