Pair of Baskets

Germany

1820-30

  • Titles Pair of Baskets (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 1 1/4 × 9 1/8 × 6 1/8 in. (3.2 × 23.1 × 15.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.297B
  • Work Type baskets
  • Classification Containers

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Pair of purely decorative vases of black basalt, each of urn shape and resting on small round foot mounted on a small square plinth, the body engine turned in a vertical stripe pattern and with swags around the shoulder, the permanently attached cover domed and with an acorn finial, with two horned mask handles.
Rectangular black basalt intaglio with figure of Melpomene
Self-framed oval plaque of black basalt molded in relief illustrating the marriage feast of Perseus and Andromeda at the moment it is violently interrupted by Phineas, to whom Andromeda was formerly betrothed; outnumbered by Phineas and his followers, Perseus is seen in the foreground holding the severed head of Medusa, who he had recently slain, above a pile of bodies, to the left is a banquet table below a drawn curtain, in the background is an architectural structure and the arrival of more of Phineas's followers.
Delicate covered tureen of white soft-paste porcelain, the body resting on four scrolled feet and with two scrolled handles, with molded decoration in the 'damask'd' pattern with on each side a vertical reserve decorated with painted floral bouquets in shades of pink, purple, yellow and green enamel, the domed cover similarly decorated with molded decoration and floral bouquets, and surmounted by the modeled figure of a recumbent stag painted brown and black resting on a rocky base that is highlighted with floral springs and leaves