Hair Comb

Wedgwood

20th century (medallions possibly older)

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Round dinner plate of bone china with a heavily gilt feather edge with a border of vertical repeating motifs, with two gilt feather-edged scrolling bands with stippled interiors that intersect to form six reserves, within which are small sprays of pink and blue flowers and green leaves, on the inside along the inner band at each of six indentations are small pink roses.
Southern Netherlands, façon de Venise diamond-engraved winged goblet, the funnel-shaped bowl engraved with two oval medallions, one depicting Saint John the Baptist holding the Cross, Bible, and Lamb, and wearing a camel fur over his shoulder, the other showng Saint Paul holding a sword, the saints are flanked by two large flowers; the stem a series of coiled tubes, whose middle section is shaped like an "8" enclosing white threads and applied with pincered ornaments, on a folded conical foot
Hercules and the Cerynitian Hind, Modeled by Georg Conrad Weitbrecht, Wasseralfingen, cast iron
A Parian plaque, or tile, with a dark blue-green, glazed ground with white pâte-sur-pâte decoration depicting a nymph wearing a diaphanous robe, holding a protesting cherub in the scale-patterned basin of a columnar fountain with her left hand and wielding a scrubbing brush in her raised right hand, behind her are three additional cherubs suspended from a line on which they have been hung out to dry.