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Oval medallion of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief with a scene from the "Domestic Employment" series, a seated woman reading and a small child playing with a doll on the floor, mounted in a gilt-bronze frame.
Round basalt medallion with encaustic profile portrait of Dr Daniel Solander (1736-1782), with self-frame. Solander was a Swedish naturalist who studied at the University of Uppsala, taking an M.D Degree later becoming an employee at the British Museum
Tall, irregularly shaped bowl of reddish stoneware, Raku-fired creating a scorched, blackish-gray chalky surface, below the rim a series of diagonal lines extending around the body, the interior black.
Oval medallion with relief profile of Lord Samuel Hood (1724-1816), British Admiral, Born in Dorset, Entering the Navy in 1741; promoted post captain in 1759; commissioner of Portland dockyard 1778; served with Lord Rodney in the West Indies, 1780-1783, for which he was promoted commander-in-chief. In his actions in the West Indies against the French commander, de Grasse, Hood showed himself a masterly tactician. He stood for Parliament in 1784 against Fox for Westminster and was elected.