Set of Six Napkins

  • Titles Set of Six Napkins (Descriptive)
  • Medium linen; lace
  • Dimensions each: 13 1/2 × 12 1/4 in. (34.3 × 31.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James Meissner, 1991.1233.1-.6
  • Work Type napkins
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Statuette based on Drake's design for the monument to King Friedrich Wilhelm III in Berlin's Tiergarten.
Plain cream-colored stoneware footed mortar and a pestle of the same material with a rounded wood handle.
Cast-iron ring, the plain band with split shoulder, the face with an oval portrait medallion with the bust of Friedrich Augusts I, King of Saxony (1750-1827; king from 1806) in profile right.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in miniature in solid black jasper with molded relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage.