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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Obverse: A young man attempting to catch the fleeing Chronos (with bill hook). Reverse: A figure being carried by the winged Chronos.
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Charles V (1500-1558), was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1506. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia. As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets"
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Sugar bowl with a bucket shape that flares out twice and tapers in towards the base. The exterior is matte black with some slight impressed banding visible on the body. The lid is circular with an exaggerated 'u' shape in its center.