Oval blue jasper cameo with white relief profile portrait of a woman

Cameo

Wedgwood

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Octagonal black basalt intaglio or cypher B W
Small urn shaped two handled vase of solid white jasper with black jasper dip mounted on a round drum shaped pedestal engine turned in a checkerboard pattern of black and white with yellow relief decoration in the form of quatrefoils in the middle of the white squares and white relief decoration in the form of scrolling leaves and leafy elements the vase rests on a plain white square plinth and has a round foot enhanced with a leafy border and overlapping acanthus leaves on the vases stem both likewise in white relief the lower body of the vase with an acanthus leaf and star pattern the upper body decorated in the same diced pattern as the pedestal with a band of leafy vines directly below the lip in white relief the lip with a border of white stylized floral motifs the two white jasper handles terminate in rams heads
Small statuette of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe standing in full figure on small flat square base wearing trousers and long buttoned frock coat open at the neck and with scarf his left hand on his hip his right hand holding a book
Oval black basalt medallion with relief portrait of a Francesco Albani 1578 1660 facing right Italian painter who was born in Bologna The son of a silk merchant who studied as a fellow pupil with Guido Reni first under Calvaert in Bologna and then under the Carracci in Rome He enjoyed a considerable reputation in seventeenth century Italy and his works are mainly preserved in Rome Paris and Bologna