Plaster cast of the New Year's card with a view of the Königsstuhl in Rense by Stolzenfels on the Rhine.

New Year’s Card

Modeled by Heinrich Zumpft, After a drawing by Bernhard Hundeshagen, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Sayn

1826

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Polychrome miniature of British Admiral, possibly the Duke of Clarence
Round box with miniature on top surrounded by rhinestones around inner and outer edges.
Vase, Elwyn James, or David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Black basalt jug decorated with encaustic painting derived from the Greek "oenochoe" form with a band of red around the foot and detailing the handle, the body decorated with on one side the image of a classical figure holding a mirror aloft and on the other a classical figure in movement holding a wreath, both are making offerings and are derived from a scene of the god Castor in a temple, above the figures at the shoulder is a band of anthemion and tear drop motifs below a band of floral elements, midway on the neck is a band of beading and the lip of the jug is decorated with an egg and dart pattern, the curved, molded handle terminates in a molded mask, perhaps Castor's brother Pollux, wearing a swan headdress above a foliate sprig.