Pair of Bowls

Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory

1953

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Bust in profile left in uniform with the Order of the Black Eagle.
Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The areas around the vase's lip and its base are brown in color with splotches of mustard/khaki. The middle of the vase's exterior is primarily glazed dark brown with areas of light brown, tan, and mustard. The rest of the form is covered in splotches of dark brown, light brown, and mustard. The upper half of the vase's exterior is covered in thin and medium-sized impressed lines around the form. The lower half of the vase's exterior is covered in large, impressed lines around the form. There are several air bubbles in the glaze along the upper half of the vase. The lip is glazed dark green, tinged with brown. The vase's interior is dark green, with a dripping glaze.
Octagonal blue jasper intaglio or cypher, "B Y"?
Solid medium blue jasper bulb pot in the form of the figure of a classically-dressed Psyche as a young woman reclining next to a large vessel on an oval base molded and decorated with white jasper to look like a rocky ground, Psyche rests against a sarcophagus decorated with white jasper garlands and stiff leaf motifs and with a pierced top.