New Year’s Card

Modeled by Ewald Mataré, Buderus Foundry

1954

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In central square panel the Neue Wache in Berlin, designed 1817-18 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the cast-iron bridge over the Operngraben; in the upper left corner a monument in the form of an obelisk for Johann Gottlieb Fichte, erected at the Oranienburger Tor cemetery in Berlin; in the lower left corner a monument for Count Wilhelm von Schwerin in the Krekow church; at right a monument in the form of a tall obelisk with four lions on the base for the Russian Prince Kutusow, erected in Bunzlau, designed by Schinkel, the lions after models by Johann Gottfried Schadow.
Large solid light blue jasper monteith with applied white jasper relief decoration with a band of guilloche around the foot and icicles around the lower body, the main body with a frieze of fruiting grapevines held by small paterae, the neck with leafy lotus motifs, the upper edge wavy to accommodate wine glass stems and decorated with a band of guilloche, with two molded handles with dash and dot around the edge, below the handles are applied white jasper leaf ornaments.
Black basalt vase of ovoid shape, Keith Murray shape 3870, with engine-turned ribbing on the body.
Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware