Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Prince of Waterloo (1769-1852)

Modeled by Daniel Friedrich Loos, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin, or Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1815

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Small bulb pot of white stoneware covered with an opaque variegated agate glaze in shades of brown, beige and yellow, below the lip a band of gilded fret work, the fitted cover with two fitments to hold bulbs and two smaller air holes, both the interior of the pot and underside of the cover are glazed black.
Oval, self-framed black basalt medallion with the portrait of the goddess Minerva, probably after Montfaucon, in full armor in profile right, below her the name MINERVA, the frame gilded with an inner border of reeds bound by a series of crossed straps, the outer frame of fluted cavetto moulding
Portrait bust of the poet and historian Friedrich von Schiller in profile right.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of the scene Psyche Bound to a Tree with from left a seated female figure holding a lyre before a statue on a plinth, Cupid aiming an arrow a Psyche, who is bound to a tree with a rope and looking over her shoulder at a butterfly on a tree branch, the figure of Diana with a bow and deer, and a female figure holding a vase of flowers in a jar on a tray with a winged putti carrying a torch behind her, all figures on a thin ground extending the length of the tablet.