Large, rectangular, cast-iron plaque with the relief image of the Deposition, or Entombment of Christ, after being removed from the cross, the body of Christ is carried by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea to the grave, behind them are the Virgin Mary swooning, Mary Magdalene, Martha and her sister Mary as well as Saint John against an architectural background, in a cast-iron frame with acanthus leaf motifs.

The Entombment of Christ

Modeled after Leonhard Posch, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin, or Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1820

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Vase of bone china in the shape of the First Day's Vase with bulbous body and small foot resting on a small square plinth, with two upright, elongated handles, the flat cover with baluster finial, the vase in the "Aesthetic style" and elaborately decorated on a white ground with two large inward curling scrolls on all four sides in shades of matte olive green, turquoise, and gold, in between are leafy swags extending from orange and gold rectangular reserves above a stylized acanthus leaf element, the lower body in matte olive green with cross hatching and parallel lines in gold, the shoulder of the vase with gold anthemion motifs against a matte olive green ground, the handles gold and the foot decorated with a band of leafy elements in orange and turquoise, a similar band runs around the side of the cover, the top of the cover and the finial in matte olive green highlighted in gold, the square base matte green on the sides and likewise highlighted in gold.
Head in profile left in cast-iron frame. Born princess of Saxony-Hildburghausen, in 1810 married King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
Bust in profile left in fur-trimmed coat.
Bust three-quarters right. A pendant to the portrait of her husband, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (1986.475a).