Paperweight

Royal Prussian Iron Foundries, After a design by Friedrich Drake

About 1830

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Bust in profile left in civilian dress in contemporary brass frame.
Shallow, round dish of reddish-beige stoneware covered with an opaque, creamy beige glaze which in places allows the color of the clay to show through, the short edge of the dish is fluted.
Oval tri-color jasper (lilac, sage green, and white) cameo with white relief sacrificial scene
Chatelaine of cut steel, the large steel hook set with an octagonal medallion of solid dark blue jasper with white jasper bas relief of a standing classical figure next to a column holding a mirror in her left hand and surrounded by a stiff leaf border, on either side large, round beaded florettes of cut steel from which extend three chains united on one side by a similar round beaded element and on the other by a hook, from the beaded element extend four additional chains, two of which end in beaded tassels, one has attached a round solid blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of on one side "Hebe and the Eagle" and on the other a striding classical figure set into a seal, and the last has attached a round solid blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of on one side Hebe and the Eagle and on the other a group of classical figures at an altar set into a key; attached to the hook on the other side is a small, delicate tooled gold book with ivory leaves.