Covered Bowl with Saucer

Swansea (Cambrian) Pottery

19th century

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Pair of solid white jasper urns with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, each resting on a small square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs, the round foot with a band of overlapping leaves highlighted with shading, the bulbous, lower body with leafy and lotus elements and the main body decorated with a scene of Apollo and the Nine Muses, likewise highlighted with shading, above the main scene a pattern of floral garlands held in place by small paterae, with two upright, fluted and slightly extended loop handles, along the shoulder a band of anthemion motifs, the conforming flat cover with a band of scrolls along the edge and on top in a star-like pattern stylized acanthus leaves, the tall finial baluster shaped, the interior white.
Tall, narrow candlestick in the 16th century Renaissance style of colorful Majolica glazed in bright shades of green, blue, yellow, brown and white, of columnar form with round foot decorated with stylized acanthus leaves in low relief, the angular stem pierced with figures and scrolling floral elements below four female busts that support the leafy bobeche, the nozzle in the shape of an urn.
Oval basalt medallion with Herculaneum dancer, with gilt self-frame
Small cast-iron pendant medallion with the portrait bust of Emperor Alexander I Pavlovich (1777-1825; 1801 Emperor) in profile left, with small eye for hanging.