Paperweight

Germany

About 1892

  • Titles Paperweight (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 4 1/2 × 4 15/16 × 2 3/4 in. (11.4 × 12.5 × 7 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.254
  • Work Type paperweight
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Small tin-glazed earthenware tile with an opaque, bluish ground, transfer-printed in black with the scene of a couple in 18th century garb dancing in a landscape with a pyramid in the background, within a scrolled border.
Cupid Charms Flowers from a Stony Ground, Modeled after a relief (1831) by Bertel Thorwaldsen, Ilsenburg, cast iron
Small oval medallion of black basalt with the bearded portrait bust of the Roman general and politician Quintilius draped and with laurel leaf crown facing right, below the bust impressed QUINTILI., set into a simple, tooled silver mount with an eye for a chain.
Small, rectangular cast-iron plaque, the cast-iron frame attached and decorated with a simple, repeating pattern of anthemion motifs and beading, the central scene of The Last Supper after the original by Leonardo da Vinci with the text MEN DICO VOBIS QUIA UNNUS VESTRUM ME TRADITURUS EST (And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me) from Matthew 26 below.