Plate

Germany

1820-25

  • Titles Plate (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 11 5/16 in. (28.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.259.1A
  • Work Type plate
  • Classification Containers

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Solid light blue jasper tea canister with applied white jasper relief decoration, bulbous in shape on round foot, the lower body engine turned, on one side of the canister figures from the Domestic Employment series and on the other the scene of Poor Maria featuring a seated young woman and her dog, on the shoulder a band of overlapping acanthus leaves and a band of roulette-made circles at the top of the short neck, the foot with a band of white around it, the cover (likely a marriage) with acanthus leaves and a pinched ball finial.
Vase "Cybele in Car Drawn by Lions", Wedgwood, stoneware (black basalt)
Portrait medallion in white jasper with black jasper dip on the front only and white relief depicting Dorothea, Lady Banks (1758-1828), wife of Sir Joseph Banks, to right, wearing a draped garment, her hair in rolls and tied with a wide hairband.
Drawer pull with enameled floral decoration