Plate

Germany

1820-30

  • Titles Plate (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 13/16 × 6 13/16 in. (2 × 17.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.298.4
  • Work Type plate
  • Classification Containers
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Cream jug of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, below the lip a band with the stem of the same plant, with loop handle that is angled at the top, and elongated spout.
Pyrrhus Presented to Glaucias, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a model by Wedgwood, After a gem by Charles Brown, cast iron
Footed, molded potpourri vase or bulb pot of buff-colored caneware decorated with enamel, the round foot with two blue bands around it, the body fluted and painted with blue bands and green bamboo leaves to give the impression of bamboo poles, with two small handles and a band of gold around the shoulder and below the lip, between the gold bands a band of light blue enamel with a meandering green leaf and berry vine, a band of blue along the edge of the lip, the conforming cover pierced with holes of varying sizes with blue edging and green palmettes, the tall, round, open finial fluted and decorated with blue bands.
Solid blue jasper plate with white jasper relief decoration, the rim decorated with large, alternating acanthus leaves and stiff leaf motifs, the center well decorated with the Infant Academy featuring a group of three draped cherub figures posing for another draped cherub figure working at an easel with a vase of flowers, two rolled scrolls and another implement behind him, the underside of the rim is engine turned.