Bust in profile left with drapery.

Unknown Man

Probably Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1800

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Head in profile left in cast-iron frame.
Pair of tall, footed covered vases in black basalt, urn shaped and resting on small square plinths decorated with a repeating geometric pattern on each side, the foot and stems as well as the body above the shoulder and neck are engine turned, the lower body with acanthus leaves that extend upward and the main body with swags of leafy grape vines and bunches of grapes, each has two handles comprised of satyr masks, whose long horns curve up and around and attach to the lip of the vase, with fluted covers with ball finials (not identical).
Large, heavy beer pump handle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the body with on one side the muse Urania, muse of astronomy, and on the other the muse Melpomene, muse of tragedy, between them are dividers comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs.
Rectangular green jasper plaque with white relief scene of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides