Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer and Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German physician and writer

Berlin, Germany

About 1820-1830

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The seated figure of a woman in unglazed hard-paste biscuit porcelain dressed in classical garb reading a book atop a footed lamp in the form of a canoe-shaped antique oil lamp, this painted with overglaze enamels in a greenish tone that simulates patinated copper (vert bronze), with decorative gilding
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration with part of tree on the left and four Dancing Hours figures, all on a thin ground that extends the length of the tablet.
Porcelain covered tureen in the form of a partridge, naturalistically modeled and colored with a russet head and shaded brown plumage, resting on a white next edged in yellow wheatears, tan feathers and green grass.
Bust in profile left in the uniform of the Prussian First Infantry Regiment with the Order of the Black Eagle, the Iron Cross, the War Memorial Medal 1813-15, and the Russian St. George's Cross.