Paperweight

Germany

1830-40

  • Titles Paperweight (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 3 15/16 × 3 3/4 × 2 9/16 in. (10 × 9.6 × 6.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.250.2
  • Work Type paperweight
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Bust in profile left in uniform with the Order of the Black Eagle, with ermine mantle.
Helmet-shaped creamer of solid light green jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, with a laminated band around the edge of the round foot, the body decorated with cupids at play with baskets and floral wreaths, a ewer, in a landscape.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Winston Churchill smoking a cigar (1874-1965) facing left. Winston Churchill was a British politician who was Prime Minister between 1940 and 1945 and again between 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to Victory against Nazi Germany. He is well known for his famous speech "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
Oval black basalt medallion with relief profile portrait of Wesley (1703-1790) facing right, Founder of English methodism; the second son of Samuel Wesley, rector of Epworth. Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. He showed great promise as a student, and developed a strong religious fervour after reading Law's Serious Call. He formed an association with other students of the college who held similar views, in their devotions and from the punctiliousness of the members demeanour, they became to be called 'methodists' by the wits of the university. Among the circle, apart from Wesley, was George Whitfield who was to acquire almost equal celebrity at the time. Wesley went to the American colony of Virginia and preached among the Indians. In 1738 he returned to London and began to preach, drawing large crowds. He then went to Bristol to become a field preacher in successiopn to Whitfield. He would usually travel 4,500 miles a year or a total of 225,000 miles in his lifetime delivering sermons from 2 to 4 hours long.