Putti with Flowers

Bow porcelain factory

About 1765

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Dress sword, or rapier, with scabbard, the blade of steel and etched in a pattern of scrolling foliage, the hilt of silver, the guard and pommel elaborately engraved in a floral and strapwork pattern, the grip and pommel set with small Wedgwood blue and white jasperware medallions in ropework mounts, four on each side with on side 1) Jupiter or a young warrior; Medea rejuvenating the head of Jason’s father; classical male figure; Minerva; and on side 2) unidentified; Andromache mourning the death of Hector; Demeter searching for her daughter Persephone; Bacchanalian scene; the sewn parchment scabbard with steel tip and mouthpiece, the mouthpiece set with an oval blue and white jasperware medallion with the Muses of painting and poetry mourning the death of the Swiss poet Solomon Gessner (1720-88).
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Titus (39-81 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name TITUS is impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Miniature cup and saucer of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, on both cup and saucer tiny relief scenes including on the cup Aurora, classical figures, and classical figures at an altar, on the saucer Romulus/Remus with a wolf, Venus and Cupid, Cupids riding a sea monster, Cupids with an urn, and Cupid riding a sea monster.
Head in profile left. This portrait was used on the Bavarian Kronthaler in 1809 and again for the Rheingold Ducat in 1821.