Candlestick

Germany

1840-50

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Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of King George III (1738-1820) facing right., cracked.He is shown in profile wearing a laurel wreath like a Roman Emperor. He was married to Queen Charlotte after whom Wedgwood's Queen's ware was so named in her honour.
Cut steel bead chatelaine with three self-shanked, black basalt seals or intaglios, each with a male profile portrait
Small vase of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief of urn shape on a square plinth decorated with white anthemion motifs all around, the round foot engine-turned and with a band of white beading, the lower body with white stiff leaf motifs and the upper body with figures from the "Domestic Employment" series, including women and children at play with a dog and birds in a landscape with trees, around the shoulder a band of white jasper overlapping laurel leaves and berries, the two twisted handles terminate in lion masks, the neck is engine-turned and has a band of white beading below the lip, the cover is a wood replacement.
Silver communion cup with associated paten cover, the plain bell-shaped cup with flared lip and with two bands of molding at the waist, between the bands engraved with four interconnected rectangular reserves within which are leafy vines, on a spool-shaped stem with central baluster knop on spreading, molded foot stamped with bands of egg-and-dart ornament, the plain paten cover with a spool-shaped finial with flat knop engraved with the date 1571.