Unknown Man

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, After a stone cut by Luigi Pichler

About 1800

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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.
The figure of Pierrot standing on a rocaille base with pierced and gilded scrolls, the base decorated with small applied flowers in lilac with green leaves, Pierrot wears a costume in white consisting of trousers and a jacket trimmed in gold, with a ruffle collar, and a large hat with the brim rolled up on the left side, his left hand is raised, palm up and open, the right arm is lowered at his side, the shoes are yellow with gilt buckles
Small round medallion of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white bas relief of an Offering to Jupiter – Jupiter is seated on a stool with a staff and an eagle by his side, a young maiden approaches him with a large round bowl - in a cut-steel mount set with two bands of faceted cut-steel beads and a wider band of small cut steel beads arranged in a floral pattern between single, larger, oval, faceted cut-steel beads, the reverse with a brass and steel pin (a later addition or repair)
Small asparagus shell of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed in underglaze blue in the "Fisherman" or "Pleasure Boat" pattern, above and below the printed scene a border of small blue square elements with a white dot in the middle above a repeating C-scroll and dot pattern, the exterior and interior sides with a similar repeating geometric pattern.