Designs for a Silver Caskett (recto) and a Porcelain Candelabrum (verso) from the Vienna Exhibition of 1873

Double-sided printed page, from the English version of the 12th volume of a German trade journal of decorative arts, titled "The Workshop: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Progress of the Oseful Arts", containing a design for silver caskett (recto) and a design for a porcelain candelabrum (verso). The design for a caskett has a lid with two fantastic dragons linked by scrolling acanthus leaves, inside a border with thin, scrolling leaves, and the side with two rope rings separated by an escutcheon with a monogram "M" under a crown flanked above by a shell motif, over a background with thin, scrolling leaves and stylized flowers. The caskett is said to have been presented in the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, designed and manufactured by Emile Philippe in Paris.

The design for a candelabrum consists of a column with nude female figures wearing crowns, standing on the base and reclining against the base, to the sides of a shell motif that lies in the center, flanked above by a trident, and with two intersecting dolphins in it, standing on scrollinf morifs, and separated from the female figures by stylized leaves and S-curves. A ring with scrolling leaves and flowers separates them from an upper portion of the column, with a strip of palmettes flanked by elongated leaves, and oval motifs with side-face portraits, over a background with thin, scrolling branches with leaves. Above it, separated by two rings of semi-abstract floral and ring motifs, is a strip of triangles, filled with stylized leaves, with two grotesques on the sides. Above them is an elongation of the column, with stylized acanthus leaves and thin, horizontal garlands that go around it, holding four stylized flower receptacles with sepals, separated by stylized, scrolling acanthus leaves, which would hold the candles. To the sides of this upper part of the column base are two scrolls, formed around rosettes, above which stand two mermen youths, each holding rains that link them to swans with extended wings, which extend to the sides of the candelabrum, and above which the scrolls on which the mermen stand form mouths of cornucopia from which emerge five other flower receptacles with sepals, where more candles would stand. This design is said to have been designed by an Architecht Wiedemann, and manufactured by the Royal Porcelain Factory of Meissen, also viewed in the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.