Plate (Assiette)

Hannong pottery factory, Strasbourg

1765-1780

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This teardrop-shaped custard cup or dessert pot is made from a fine sheet of moulded yellow jasper which has been decorated with a crenellated edge and the ornamentation of a fine white jasper lattice or trellis design. It was made between 1790 and 1800.
Pair of vases of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, each on round foot decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves, the tapered body with a pattern of four fluted columns ending in lion's feet, with lion's head's with rings in their mouths at the top of each column, with a band of twisted ribbon around the lower body and a band of ribbon and oak leaves at the top, the main body with floral and fruit festoons between the columns as well as small oval medallions with classical vignettes, including a flying cupid, a detail from Sacrifice to Hymen, Venus bound by Cupid, and a classical figure, the flared lip with the same overlapping acanthus leaf motif as around the foot.
Octagonal blue jasper cameo with white relief scene of Hercules and the boar
Rectangular light blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of Priam begging for the body of his son Hector, broken at center and repaired