Paperweight Depicting the Attributes of Trade

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1820

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Boy's suit; two piece dark green velvet suit, seven waist buttons. Legs trimmed in black silk, ecru machine lace cuffs. One hip pocket and button fly.
Venus de Medici, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a model from Wedgwood, Based on a design by Rev. Mr. Joseph Spence, cast iron
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Newton with a 'shooting star' on the right with a blue background, white portrait.(1642-1727) was an English natural philosopher and mathematician. Newton's formulation of the law of gravity from observing the fall of an apple came in 1666. He went on to devise a reflecting telescope and study Descartes' geometry. His most important published work is the Principia mathematica of 1684. His Optics first appeared in 1704. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
The figure of a mustached Doctor Boloardo standing on a small white base, his knees bent and his right leg thrust forward, his hands at waist, wearing red knee breeches, white stockings and black shoes, his puce-colored coat with gilt buttons and details, a large white ruffled collar rests upon his gray cloak with yellow lining, he wears a large black hat over a blue skullcap