Cartel Clock (Pendule en cartel)

Movement by Pierre LeRoy, France

About 1750

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Head in profile left.
Candleholder of black basalt in the form of a bearded, naked Triton with seaweed clinging to his thighs sitting atop a rocky base and holding in both hands a whorled conch shell that functions as the candleholder.
Miniature commemorative spill vase of vase form of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, on one side the portrait bust of Josiah Wedgwood with the name JOSIAH WEDGWOOD and dates 1730-1795 in banners below, on the other the coat of arms of the Wedgwood baronetcy Gules four Mullets in Cross and a Canton Argent and on a Ducal Coronet a Lion passant Argent with the motto "Obstantia Discindo" (I split asunder obstacles) in a banner below.
Small cast-iron cross pendant in the shape of a Maltese cross, the central medallion with the portrait bust of Queen Luise of Prussia (1776-1810) right in a silver mount.