Rulers of England – Henry II

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Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, at left part of tree next to a draped male holding a staff next to draped female holding lyre, a male wearing an animal skin playing two pipes, a male figure wearing an animal skin and holding a staff supporting a man with a grape leaf wreath, draped and reaching for a ewer on the ground, a female with a lyre, draped, and moving away from a male wearing an animal skin and grasping at her drapery, with part of a tree at the right edge, all standing on a thin ground that does not extend the length of panel, with two small portions of ground on left and right sides.
Johann Heinrich Kureck was an animal sculptor at Mägdesprung after 1843. This model was also cast at Kasli Iron Works in Ekaterinenburg about 1870 and at Mägdesprung with the horse enclosed in a small pen.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three Dancing Hours figures, all on a thin ground.
Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior is smooth in texture and is green, varying in tone from gray-green to olive green and khaki. The exterior is flecked with brown specks. The exterior has impressed, horizontal lines around the vase's form, irregular in size but fairly consistent in placement along the vase. The vase's interior is glazed dark green and has thin, raised horizontal lines corresponding in placement to the exterior's horizontal lines.