Pair of Pocket Watch Holders

Royal Prussian Iron Foundries

About 1830

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In an arch with tracery above and below sits a female figure—the patron goddess of industry—among products of the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry Sayn—urns, cannon and cannon balls, machine parts, and architectural elements—as an allegory of the iron industry, wearing a crown in the form of a foundry oven, in her left hand she holds a tablet with a crown and the initials "FWE" (ligated) and the year "1826," her right hand holds a stylus, with which she points to the tablet, at her feet is the name of the foundry "Saynerhutte" and a small shield, below the main scene is a band of quatrefoil motifs.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief of winged Cupid?, holding bow, looking at butterfly, with two doves at feet
Covered urn of solid light blue jasper with white jasper relief, resting on a square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs, the foot with acanthus leaves, the lower body with modified egg and dart decoration and the main body with the relief scene of six Bacchanalian boys in a landscape, on one side they are gathering grapes in baskets, on the other they are drinking wine, with a band of grapevines and leaves below the edge and egg and dart motifs on the edge with a band of laurel leaves and berries just below the lip, the conforming cover with stiff leaf motifs and a pinecone finial.
Plain cream-colored stoneware mortar and pestle, the pestle with a rounded wood handle.