Small round button comprised of a dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of Perseus and Andromeda – Andromeda steps down from the rock, her left hand is supported by Perseus – in a cut-steel mount with gadrooned border, with eye on back.

Button “Perseus and Andromeda”

Wedgwood, Attributed to Matthew Boulton

1785-1800

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Oval basalt medallion with profile portrait of Alexander the Great (356-323BC) facing right within a self framed border. Alexander was a Greek soldier, son of Philip of Macedon, born in Pella, and educated by Aristotle. At an early age he showed military talent of a high order, crossing the Hellespont in 334 to defeat a Persian army led by Darius. He consolidated this victory by occupying Palestine, marching thence to Egypt where he was hailed as a deliverer from Persian tyranny. He founded Alexandria in 331 B.C., and again defeated Darius in the same year. By 329 he had reached the river of Jaxartes, and in 328 subdued the whole of Sogdiana. In 326 he attempted the conquest of India, establishing Greek colonies in the Punjab, and bringing Greek influence to the art in the East, Returning to Babylon he began to plan for further conquests, but was taken ill after a banquet and died eleven days later. His body deposited in Alexandria in a soldiers coffin.