Paper Clamp

Foundry unknown, Germany

Second quarter of the 19th century

  • Titles Paper Clamp (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 2 15/16 × 6 1/4 × 3 7/8 in. (7.5 × 15.8 × 9.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.340.4
  • Work Type paper clamp
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Small delicate finely modeled porcelain teapot in the form of on one side a dandy with bangs long red hair and a moustache wearing a kind of pink artists cap his head tilted slightly right his large collar bound with a loose pink tie over a smartly tailored green suit with a large yellow sunflower on his left breast his left arm bent and resting on his hip forming the teapots handle his right arm slightly outstretched and bent at the elbow with his right hand limp and pointed downward forming the spout on the other side the teapot is in the form of a woman sporting a similar hairstyle her hair also red wearing a large white ruffled collar a similar cap on her head and a large white lily on her right breast over her fitted green smocked gown in opposition to her companion it is her right arm that is bent to form the handle and her left arm is outstretched and bent at the elbow to form the spout the head is removable forming the cover with a band of gilding around the foot
White unglazed stoneware figure of a standing nude woman her right leg slightly bent and her body leaning slightly backwards both hands resting on a stylized plant for support her hair slightly rolled and shoulder length and her gaze directed to the right
Tall lamp in two parts of cameo glass in the Art Nouveau style the slender vase shaped base on a round foot supports a two tiered domed shade the lamp decorated in shades of yellow orange brown and white with a winter landscape scene the foot highlighted in white to resemble snow the stem decorated with the trunks of brown barren trees which continue to the shade displaying their leafless branches against a somber orange sky the branches are picked out in white to represent fallen snow the shade is held in place by a pronged clip attached to the base
Oval self shanked black basalt intaglio with portrait of Benjamin Franklin