A cast iron paperweight with a figure of Cupid sailing
A cast iron paperweight with a figure of Cupid sailing
Cast in several parts. Depicting Cupid sailing over the waves on his quiver, holding a standard with a sail in both hands. H 12.7, W 13.6, D 6.5 cm.
Round Iron Foundry Gleiweitz/Gliwice, around 1820.
Provenance
Private collection, Berlin.
Literature
Cf. Hintze, Gleiwitzer Eisenkunstguss, Breslau 1928, p. 88, plate XVIII, fig. 8 and p. 55, no. 31.
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A cast iron paperweight with a figure of Cupid sailing
Cast in several parts. Depicting Cupid sailing over the waves on his quiver, holding a standard with a sail in both hands. H 12.7, W 13.6, D 6.5 cm.
Round Iron Foundry Gleiweitz/Gliwice, around 1820.
Provenance
Private collection, Berlin.
Literature
Cf. Hintze, Gleiwitzer Eisenkunstguss, Breslau 1928, p. 88, plate XVIII, fig. 8 and p. 55, no. 31.
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