Octagonal blue jasper cameo with white relief of woman (Hope?) with anchor, set in silver as a screwback earring, cracked

Earring

Wedgwood

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Large, deep polychrome majolica charger, or plate, in the istoriato style, in the middle with a scene in shades of blue, orange, green, and brown of Julius Caesar in Roman garb with cloak surrounded by Roman townspeople distributing and receiving wine and food within a courtyard defined by architectural structures and columns, probably based on a drawing by Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-66), the border decorated with grotesques on a whitened ground incorporating fantastic birds, part-human creatures, scrolls, stylized urns, and medallions imitating engraved gems, at the top the coat-of-arms of the Petrocchini family of Montelparo, Italy, the outer edge decorated in a modified egg-and-dart pattern; the reverse with a series of bright yellow bands and painted with the inscription SON FATTI DONI AL POPVLO ROMAO
Large, square earthenware tile partially printed and hand-painted with a circular reserve outlined by a white band within two yellow bands containing in white with blue highlights the portrait of a woman to left wearing a light blouse and apron with straw hat and hairband with flower, the ground with a blue on blue design of floral vines, the larger ground of the tile contains in various shades of blue a pattern of decorative, horizontal bands with from the top a band of small x's and solid dots; the name of the season SPR ING; a fish scale pattern; a band of open dots; a band of scrolling motifs; and a band featuring a zigzag design, the reverse with horizontal bars in relief to aid adhesion when setting the tile.
In the shape of a tub, the cover with relief decoration and a recumbent lion as knob.
Bust in profile left.