The Quack Doctor

Modeled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, Royal Porcelain Manufactory Meissen

Model about 1741; Formed about 1745

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Oval blue jasper medallion with profile portrait of Priestley (1733-1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, English Dissenters clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, innovative grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works.
Paperweight with a sleeping Cupid with a bow and arrows modeled in high relief on a rectangular base.
At the Peace of Posen on December 11, 1806, Friedrich August joined the Rheinbund, which was founded by Emperor Napoleon of France on July 17, 1806. At the same time, Napoleon made Friedrich August King of Saxony. After the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, at which Friedrich August fought alongside the French and lost, he was captured and imprisoned in Friedrichsfelde near Berlin.
Small vinaigrette in the form of a fish of a bass type with gray-green scales and red fins, the middle opens up to reveal a small container covered with a pierced lid of gilt silver, with additional gilt silver mounts and eye attached to the nose for hanging.