Oval blue jasper cameo with white relief decoration set in cut steel as a buckle the cut steel is multi faceted to imitate gemstones and is probably produced by Matthew Boulton the jasperware shows the sacrifice to cupid

Cameo Buckle

Wedgwood

About 1785

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Hercules Holding the World Royal Prussian Iron Foundry Gleiwitz After a model by Wedgwood cast iron
Head of the writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in profile left
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
Round blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Moliere 1622 1673 facing left Jean Baptiste Poquelin who took the stage name of Moliere was born in Paris the son of an upholsterer who was also valet de chambre to Louis XIII He studied under the Jesuits at the College de Clermont In 1641 Moliere succeeded his father as the Kings valet but soon abandoned the appointment for the stage joining a company of strolling players For a time he came under the patronage of the Prince de Conti and the Kings brother the duc dOrleans He first played before the King in 1658 In the following year his genius as a comic dramatist asserted itself and the well known comedies began to flow from his pen In 1665 Louis XIV adopted Molieres troupe of players as his own giving its director a pension of a thousand livres His last play was the Malade Imaginaire Moliere was ill when it was played and the exertion produced a haemorrhage from which he died a few hours later