Elaborate Louis XVI-style center table veneered in lemon tree wood and rosewood, with reeded, tapering legs, ornamented with light blue jasper plaques with white relief depicting cupids at play and mercury-gilded bronze mounts, with interlaced stretchers with center urn topped with berry finial, and tooled leather surface

Center Table

Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen, Wedgwood

About 1865

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Bow porcelain goat and kid facing each other. The goat has brown patches and is standing while the kid painted with dark gray patches in sitting. The scroll base is painted in burgundy strokes and decorated with green foliage and white flowers.
Obverse: Bust in profile right.
Oval intaglio of black basalt with the portrait bust of an unknown gentleman in classical garb and with short curly hair facing left, set in beaded silver mount that was originally gilded, the reverse with both eye for a chain and pin. Intaglio to be worn with bracelet 1977.144.1-.9
Small silver inkwell resting on three fluted, slightly curved legs, with beaded edges, comprised of four parts – a pen tray and stand with attached candleholder (with hook for a snuffer, now missing) and three cut-glass vessels with silver covers for ink and sand, these rest in detachable, pierced silver galleries held in place from below with pins.