Mercury, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron

Mercury

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1800

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Wide, simple fruit bowl, Keith Murray shape 3806, finished with a Moonstone glaze. A series of engine-turned concentric rings encircle the top of the bowl, near the mouth. The rings are repeated on the pedestal base.
Oval, self-framed black basalt medallion with the portrait of the goddess Minerva, probably after Montfaucon, in full armor in profile right, below her the name MINERVA, the frame gilded with an inner border of reeds bound by a series of crossed straps, the outer frame of fluted cavetto moulding
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