Musk Ox

Ruscha-Keramik, Keramische Werke Rheinbach

About 1960

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Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet and critic, born in London, his father being a Roman Catholic linen-draper..
Solid light blue jasper tea canister with applied white jasper relief decoration, bulbous in shape on round foot, the lower body engine turned, on one side of the canister figures from the Domestic Employment series and on the other the scene of Poor Maria featuring a seated young woman and her dog, on the shoulder a band of overlapping acanthus leaves and a band of roulette-made circles at the top of the short neck, the foot with a band of white around it, the cover (likely a marriage) with acanthus leaves and a pinched ball finial.
Solid white jasper covered vase with light green jasper dip and applied white and lilac jasper relief decoration, resting on a small square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs, the vase foot with a band of overlapping acanthus leaves around the edge, the lower body with applied white stiff leaf motifs, the main body with a heavy floral swag on either side with a lilac and white medallion above that features on one side the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche and on the other the Sacrifice to Hymen, with a band of ribbon and vine below the flat shoulder, with two ram's head masks, one on either side, whose horns curve around to form the handle, the short neck with a white band around the middle and crossed ribbons around the lip, the cover with stiff leaf motifs and ball finial.
Plaque of white Jasper, with blue and lilac dip and applied white relief decoration. The cameo scene depicts 'Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn'. A female figure in flowing classical robes drives a chariot, pulled by two rearing horses, to the right across the sky. She wears a diadem of a rayed sun. One winged putti leads the way with a flaming torch and another flies behind the chariot. They are all surrounded by wispy clouds. Around the edge of the scene is a raised border of olive green, with applied white relief decoration of intertwined rope and small impressed bosses at regular intervals. The plaque, for box decoration, is rectangular with cut off corners and a bevelled and polished edge.