Stand for a Mirror

Royal Prussian Iron Foundries, or Lauchhammer foundry

1825-35

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Creamware soup plate in the Royal shape transfer-printed in black depicting a naval vessel with a yellow-painted flag with a double eagle, which is that of the last German Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Francis II (1768-1835), the rim printed with five sprays of flowers.
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.
Rectangular black basalt intaglio with Cupid and earth(?) on scales, inscribed "L'AMOUR L'EMPORTE(?)" ("Love Prevails"?)
Rectangular blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of Cupids in the arts, break with old metal staple repair