Ornament

Germany

First quarter 19th century

  • Titles Ornament (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.1169
  • Work Type ornament
  • Classification Components

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Small bowl of beige stoneware, funnel-shaped and with ribbing, or fluting, on the exterior, covered with a light gray-blue glaze that allows the color of the clay to show through on the edges of the ribbed decoration, the interior glaze ranging from light blue to beige to brown in an irregular and mottled fashion.
Round blue jasper medallion with white relief of sacrificial scene with winged boy, set in metal frame
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Hector Taking Leave of Andromache, Modeled after a cut stone by Luigi Pichler, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron