Bust in profile right with drapery.

Unknown Man

Probably Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1800

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Figure modeled after the statuette of Vischer on the Sebaldus Tomb in the Church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg.
A vase with a bottle-like form. It is heavy and primarily black in color. The upper part o fthe vase has interspersed thin, red, and horizontal lines. The lower half of the vase features a dripping glaze on top of a mix of black bands, dark red, moss green, and white specks.There are some imperfections and air bubbled along the body of the vase. The vase's exterior lip is ringed in dark red and the interior of the vase's lip is ringed with dark green. The vase's interior is unglazed.
Obverse: Bust in profile right. Reverse: Two allegorical figures on both sides of a small column with tablets of the law.
Oval buckle comprised of a laminated dark blue and white jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of two seated classical female figures set in pierced and beaded cut-steel mount adorned with four laminated dark blue and white jasper rosettes with steel bead centers.