Vessel

Otto Meier

About 1970

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Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of three Dancing Hours figures on a thin ground.
Large rectangular tablet, originally from a mantelpiece, of buff-colored stoneware (artificial stone or Coade stone) decorated in high relief with a bacchanalian scene featuring scantily-clad bacchantes holding water and wine vessels aloft, a flaming torch and ax, a wreath, a faun's head and baskets, with a ram and small putti at their feet, one of which carries a thyrsus, the staff associated with Bacchus and his followers, to the right is a putti satyr and a putti riding on the back of a ram and blowing a horn.
Oval intaglio of black basalt with the portrait bust of an unknown gentleman in classical garb and with short curly hair facing left, set in beaded silver mount that was originally gilded, the reverse with both eye for a chain and pin. Intaglio to be worn with bracelet 1977.144.1-.9
Large, square earthenware tile partially printed and hand-painted with a circular reserve outlined by a white band within two yellow bands containing in white with blue highlights the portrait of a woman to left wearing a light blouse and apron with straw hat and hairband with flower, the ground with a blue on blue design of floral vines, the larger ground of the tile contains in various shades of blue a pattern of decorative, horizontal bands with from the top a band of small x's and solid dots; the name of the season SPR ING; a fish scale pattern; a band of open dots; a band of scrolling motifs; and a band featuring a zigzag design, the reverse with horizontal bars in relief to aid adhesion when setting the tile.