Half figure seated right, the head front.

St. John the Evangelist

Modeled after Leonhard Posch, Royal Prussian Iron Foundries, After an (1808) engraving by Johann Gotthard von Müller, After a painting by Domenichino

About 1818

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Pair of hollow, oval, caneware conceits in the form of iced cakes with white jasper applied elements to indicate the frosting, the sides in the form of lady fingers arranged vertically around the body and supporting a tiered top, the top layer decorated with a band of stiff leaf motifs and in the center an applied element comprised of musical instruments within a border of crossed laurel branches.
Head in profile left.
Small covered rouge pot of white porcelain decorated in iron red, green, blue and yellow with Asian figures and foliage and with at the foot and around the rim of the domed cover a band with chevron motifs in iron red.
Cast-iron paperweight, the flat, rectangular base with a border of stylized acanthus leaves and central raised wreath of laurel leaves, in the middle the bust of the German writer and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1831).