The Monument of Solomon Gessner

Wedgwood

About 1790

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Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of six winged putti, each helping support a laurel leaf garland punctuated with seeded medallions, the left putti is draped with fabric, the center putti is carrying a quiver, and the right putti is carrying a trumpet, the series repeats for a total of six figures standing on a thin ground that extends the length of the panel.
Blue jasper switch plate for electric light, with white relief figures of Apollo and Calliope with rosettes around screw hole
Today a part of the Harzgerode (Saxony-Anhalt).
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief of Soldier Bringing the News of the Death of Patroclus shows two men mourning at a head hung up at an altar.