549. URNA, Karl Johan, second quarter of the 19th century, Tinguait from Elfdals Porphyrverk, matted and polished burnished gilt bronze mounts.

Square foot plate, upturned foot, oviod urn with upturned mouth, hanger in the form of a ram's head, crowned by mount with openwork vine leaf border, height 27 cm Compare urn by Tinguait in the Audience Room at Rosersberg Castle LITERATURE: Severin Solders: Älvdalen parish history - Old Porphyrverket, part II, Stockholm 1939, plate 20, compare variant of the urn model, given as a gift from King Charles XV to Adam Lewenhaupt's father Hans Sundblom, et al.: Porphyry, exhibition catalogue, Stockholm 1985, page 77, no. 56, compare a pair of candelabra with openwork vine decoration Elsebeth Welander-Berggren: Porphyry - the royal stone, Stockholm 2016, page 7, compares Fredric Ludvig Rung's design proposal for porphyry objects in 1799 The desirable Tinguait only occurs as pebbles from the Österdalälven, mainly in the area south of the Älvdalen.