Pair of white, footed, slightly flared bowls of hard-paste porcelain, the body molded into a fluted, or "bamboo," pattern that is in two sections, a smaller lower section and larger upper section.

Pair of Bowls

Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory

1953

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Small, heavy, covered box of reddish stoneware covered with an alternating gray and cream-colored glaze, the shape of the box is rectangular and the surface is angular with a series of grooves, or indentations, that protrude from the body and lid as sharp edges, each side of the grooves alternating between the two different colored glazes.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of Marius facing left (157 BC-86 BC) Gaius Marius was a Roman general and statesman. Holding office of consul and unprecedented seven times during his career. Also noted for his important reforms of Roman armies, authorizing recruitment of landless citizens and reorganizing the structure of legions into separare cohorts. Marius defeated the invading Germani tribes for which he was called "the third founder of Rome." His life and career were significant in the transformation of Rome from Republic to Empire.
Bust in profile left.
Delicate simple bowl of white porcelain on small, narrow foot, the body decorated in a molded pattern of overlapping stylized leaf elements in varying sizes.