Cupid with a Garland

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Oval medallion with profile portrait of Charles III (1716-1788), was King of Spain and the Spanish Indies (1759–1788), after ruling Naples as Charles VII and Sicily as Charles V (1734–1759), kingdoms he abdicated to his son Ferdinand. He was the fifth son of Philip V of Spain, and the eldest son of Philip's second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he suceeded to the Spanish throne on 10 August 1759, upon the death of his half-brother King Ferdinand VI of Spain, who left no heirs.
Cast-iron stove grate, rectangular and pierced, and with two opposing hippocampi on a fountain surrounded by scrolling foliage.
Cut steel chatelaine with oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief scene, with four self-shanked black basalt cyphers or seals
Creamware Liverpool-type jug decorated on one side, transfer-printed in black, a ship at sea and at full mast with an American flag and on the other side, likewise printed, a map of America with a banner reading WASHINGTON and the figures of Washington and others along with a trumpeting angel, below a staff with the word LIBERTY, with scattered leafy gold elements around the body and swags of gilding below the rim, below the beak-shaped spout the American eagle with the motto of the United States, with loop handle.