Paperweight Depicting the Attributes of Trade

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1820

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Hunting Scene, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Three sided pot, outside black glaze, inside aventurine
Solid light blue jasper urn with applied white jasper relief decoration, on square plinth with truncated corners and a pattern of stiff leaf all around with acanthus leaves at the corners, the round foot with a band of acanthus leaves and beading at the joint, the lower body with laurel leaves and the main body with swags of laurel leaves and berries hanging from small oval paterae with beaded oval medallions on each side featuring classical scenes, with two scrolled handles with paterae on the sides and applied acanthus leaf motifs, with anthemions at the terminals, the shoulder with a band of palmettes, with acanthus leaves around the flared lip, the cover a wood facsimile.
Small Staffordshire salt-glazed culinary, or dessert, mold in the shape of a star.