Tool

  • Titles Tool (Descriptive)
  • Medium wood and steel
  • Dimensions 4 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (12.1 x 3.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.1235.2008
  • Work Type tool
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Oval white jasper cameo with relief scene of Apollo and Marsyas
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief of Soldier Bringing the News of the Death of Patroclus shows two men mourning at a head hung up at an altar.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in solid black jasper with white jasper relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage; the relief is somewhat flat and not shaded or undercut.
Chatelaine of cut steel beads with four blue jasper cameos, the two larger oval ones with white relief scenes of sacrifice to Cupid and Conquered Province, the two smaller round ones with unidentified scenes