Mercury, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron

Mercury

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1800

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Oval dark blue jasper plaque with white relief of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche. The subject was originally taken from a Renaissance gem, a sardonyx, then in the Marlborough collection and now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. There are three known versions of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche all taken from the original Marlborough gem.
Pair of tall, gilt-bronze candlesticks in the Neo-Byzantine style, each resting on four regal-looking, stylized winged panthers, with square columnar stems decorated with brightly-colored enamel in the cloisonné technique in a pattern of scrolls and leaf motifs, the top and base of the stem with gadrooning highlighted in blue enamel, with four bearded masks at the top of the stem supporting an urn shaped candle nozzle that is likewise decorated with bright enamel in the cloisonné technique and with a band of gadrooning highlighted in blue at the upper edge.
Euterpe, Muse of Lyric Poetry, Modeled after a Wedgwood medallion by John Flaxman, Jr., Royal Prussian Iron Foundries, cast iron
Inkwell of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the body with scenes from the Domestic Employment series in a landscape, the top with a large opening in the center and four smaller openings, three with white relief stiff leaf motifs around them.