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.

New Year’s Card

Modeled by Louis Beyerhaus, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin

1819

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Shallow oval dish of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, around the inner edge a border of leafy flowers on a vine, in the center well is a central decorative element comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs and on either side is a small relief scene, on one side "Sportive Love" and the other a seated woman with her hand to her face as an attendant cleans her feet with a jug of water, below a drapery.
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