Pillow Cover

19th century

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Small cup and saucer of black basalt decorated around the cup's rim and the rim of the saucer with bright blue swags with gold tassels below a band of blue and gold, the cup with loop handle highlighted in blue.
Solid light blue jasper creamer with applied lilac and white relief decoration, resting on a narrower foot decorated with a band of floral motifs, the slightly bulbous body with applied lilac medallions containing classical scenes, and white relief including heavy fruiting festoons terminating at ram's heads, ribbons, and trophies, with loop handle and beak spout.
Small, footed bowl of yellowish-beige earthenware comprised of six sections each connected in an irregular way such that the bowl appears to rotate or turn, covered with a white glaze that is uneven and puckered in spots, the raised seams where each of the six sections meet as well as the rim of the bowl are left without glaze and reveal the raw clay beneath.
Obverse: King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and his troops under a canopy. Reverse: Laurel wreath.