Fall-front Desk (Secrètaire à abattant)

Roger Vandercruse Lacroix

About 1760

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Tea bowl and saucer of white jasper with light green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the tea bowl with an engine-turned lower body, the main body decorated with cupids at play in a landscape with a flower basket, birds and insects, an urn and a dog, with a lapidary-polished interior, the saucer (possibly a marriage) engine turned on the interior resulting in light green and white stripes, the rim decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves.
Lamp finial of solid light blue jasper with white relief decoration in the form of stiff leaf motifs, in brass mount.
Octagonal blue jasper intaglio or cypher
Oval white jasper plaque with relief image of three children discussing "world" issues