Mockery of Age

Modeled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, Royal Porcelain Manufactory Meissen

Model about 1740-1741; Formed and painted about 1750

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Mercury, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
A heavy and wide, bucket-shaped vase that tapers into a cylinder to form the vase's base. The vase is glazed an olive green/khaki color, then covered irregularly with a light green glaze. On the bucket-shaped part of the vase is a blue-black drip glaze tinged with green that extends to the bottom of the form. The lip of the vase extends out slightly and is light green, then turning into mustard yellow. The interior of the vase is an irregular brown with thin light and dark lines around the form. There is some dark, irregular glaze at the base of the vase's interior.
Obverse: Bust of Rudolph Brandes (1795-1832) front.
Sacrificial Scene, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron