Paperweight Depicting the Attributes of Trade

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1820

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Tea bowl and saucer of white porcelain with web-type gilded borders and exterior Robin's egg blue ground, the tea bowl with large reserves containing finely painted harbor scenes, the interior white, the saucer with same Robin's egg blue ground and large reserve in the center with harbor scene.
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion, set in gold-plated metal as a necktie slide
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of John Locke
Octagonal plate of creamware decorated with metallic oxides in mottled shades of brown, yellow, blue, and beige under a clear glaze, with tightly ribbed edge.