Stone Sample

Brazil

  • Titles Stone Sample (Descriptive)
  • Medium Aventurine
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.4387.2008
  • Work Type sample
  • Classification Materials

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Plate, Lincoln shape?, Eastern Flowers pattern
Pair of solid sage green jasper vases with applied white jasper relief decoration and applied white jasper figures, each on an irregular, molded base with large, applied white leaves and leaning against the body of the vase which is molded to resemble a tree trunk, on .1) the figure of a winged cupid reaches with his left hand toward a white butterfly applied to the trunk, on .2) a winged cupid sleeps at the base of the tree trunk with a small birds nest with two white egg in it under his left hand.
Erato, Muse of Song, Dance, and Amorous Poetry, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Solid light blue jasper urn with applied white jasper relief decoration, on square plinth with truncated corners and a pattern of stiff leaf all around with acanthus leaves at the corners, the round foot with a band of acanthus leaves and beading at the joint, the lower body with laurel leaves and the main body with swags of laurel leaves and berries hanging from small oval paterae with beaded oval medallions on each side featuring classical scenes, with two scrolled handles with paterae on the sides and applied acanthus leaf motifs, with anthemions at the terminals, the shoulder with a band of palmettes, with acanthus leaves around the flared lip, the cover a wood facsimile.