Incense Burner

Royal Prussian Iron Foundries

1820-30

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Candleholder of black basalt in the form of a bearded, naked Triton with seaweed clinging to his thighs sitting atop a rocky base and holding in both hands a whorled conch shell that functions as the candleholder.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, with white laurel leaf border made to commemorate her Coronation in 1953
Bust in profile right in Austrian general's uniform with the Order of the Golden Fleece, other medals, and ermine mantle.
Miniature cup and saucer of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the cup with loop handle, on both are tiny relief scenes including on the cup Hope and Anchor, a female figure next to a tree, possibly the Zodiac Virgo, and two classical figures, and on the saucer a lion and calf, Cupids with a chariot (Bacchanalian scene), two classical figures, Cupids with a goat, a flying Cupid with bow and arrow, and Cupids with an urn.