Small octagonal brooch comprised of a dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of "Cupid as Oracle" – Cupid as Oracle divining the future for a young maiden – in a cut-steel mount with faceted steel beads set in circles with an outer band of smaller faceted steel beads, with pin on back.

Brooch “Cupid as Oracle”

Wedgwood, Attributed to Matthew Boulton

1785-1800

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Porcelain needle case in the form of a baby on a kind of cradle board, wearing a red and white garment with blue bows and a white cap.
Dress sword, or rapier, with scabbard, the blade of steel and etched in a pattern of scrolling foliage, the hilt of silver, the guard and pommel elaborately engraved in a floral and strapwork pattern, the grip and pommel set with small Wedgwood blue and white jasperware medallions in ropework mounts, four on each side with on side 1) Jupiter or a young warrior; Medea rejuvenating the head of Jason’s father; classical male figure; Minerva; and on side 2) unidentified; Andromache mourning the death of Hector; Demeter searching for her daughter Persephone; Bacchanalian scene; the sewn parchment scabbard with steel tip and mouthpiece, the mouthpiece set with an oval blue and white jasperware medallion with the Muses of painting and poetry mourning the death of the Swiss poet Solomon Gessner (1720-88).
Oval black medallion with profile portrait of Tiberius facing right
Octagonal black basalt intaglio or cypher, "B W"