Cabinet (Bas d’armoire)

France

Probably 19th century

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Small cup-shaped pipe bowl of solid blue jasper with small symbols of the Zodiac in white relief, with a raised band below and a small round hole in the side.
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief figure of Minerva goddess of war, with gilded border
Large covered cream cullier, or vase, of plain creamware with a pearl glaze, of baluster shape after Chinese examples, the domed cover with ball finial (the finial not original to the cover).
Creamware, Queen's-shape dinner plate enameled in rose-purple with a border of husk festoons and botanical flowers in the well, the "Husk" pattern as supplied to the Empress Catherine II of Russia in 1770.