Table Clamp

Royal Prussian Iron Foundries

1820-30

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Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The areas around the vase's lip and its base are brown in color with splotches of mustard/khaki. The middle of the vase's exterior is primarily glazed dark brown with areas of light brown, tan, and mustard. The rest of the form is covered in splotches of dark brown, light brown, and mustard. The upper half of the vase's exterior is covered in thin and medium-sized impressed lines around the form. The lower half of the vase's exterior is covered in large, impressed lines around the form. There are several air bubbles in the glaze along the upper half of the vase. The lip is glazed dark green, tinged with brown. The vase's interior is dark green, with a dripping glaze.
Large, heavy beer pump handle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the body with on one side the figure of Aesculapius, god of medicine, between two trees and on the other the figure of a draped female, perhaps Hygeia, daughter of Aesculapius and goddess of health.
Oval blue jasper intaglio or cypher, "L"
On a square base with four leafy feet, the pierced round pin cushion holder with padded pin cushion in the center on a foot with eight stylized leaf supports, atop the pin cushion kneels a winged cherub supporting a padded thimble holder on its head.