Plaster cast of the New Year's card with a view of the Monastery St. Geron in Cologne.

New Year’s Card

Possibly modeled by Carl Christian Cramer, After a drawing by Georg Osterwald, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Sayn

1840

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Bust in profile right in uniform with the sash and Order of the Black Eagle.
Bust of a female "Mongolian" in white porcelain, her head tilted slightly right, a smile on her lips, wearing her hair braided and covered with a frilled cap ornamented with three plumes and decorated at the edge with beads that match her necklace, her earrings diamond shaped, with a fur-lined, elaborately frogged coat left slightly open to reveal an unbuttoned robe underneath, cinched below the bust line with a diamond-buckled belt above an integral waisted octagonal base that is fluted and beaded above the foot rim; the back hollow.
Delicate, flat, shallow dish of rough, reddish brown stoneware covered with a mottled, bright blue glaze that is thin in spots, revealing the color of the clay beneath, the foot and bottom are unglazed.
Obverse: The Entombment. Reverse: Symbols of work and diligence, an altar with the Bible, and a skull on which a butterfly rests.