Unknown Man

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1800

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Tea bowl and saucer of white jasper with light green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the tea bowl with an engine-turned lower body, the main body decorated with cupids at play in a landscape with a flower basket, birds and insects, an urn and a dog, with a lapidary-polished interior, the saucer (possibly a marriage) engine turned on the interior resulting in light green and white stripes, the rim decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves.
Tall ewer of glazed white earthenware, modeled in the Renaissance style and decorated in the style of Dutch Delftware with cobalt blue hand-painted decoration on the white body, featuring on the ewer four reserves with landscape scenes between molded masks and laurel-leaf swags highlighted in blue, with scroll and acanthus leaf motifs below, the shoulder with a pattern of thin blue stripes and with an undecorated molded, draped female figure sitting on the shoulder below the spout and an undecorated, molded putti hanging on to the elongated, curved handle, his feet resting atop a ram's mask, the narrow neck, spout, and handle decorated with scrolls, fluting, and acanthus leaves highlighted in blue, and with a mask at the upper terminal of the handle, the round foot with fluting and a band of acanthus leaves, the stand with conforming decoration of four reserves decorated with landscape motifs between molded masks, with bundles of laurel leaves around a central well that holds the ewer.
View of the Berlin-Hamburg railway station.
Black jasper button with white relief portraits of four martyred presidents (Lincoln, Kennedy, Grafield and McKinley) with signature facsimiles beneath each. Made by Marie La Barre Bennett. Marie created studio art pottery between 1953 and her death in 1969 after which all of her moulds were destroyed.