Oval black basalt intaglio, two-sided with male profile portrait on one side and female on the other

Intaglio

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Cast-iron clasp for a bracelet, the border pierced and with scrolling foliage, the central oval medallion with a portrait of the god Hermes in profile right.
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Charles III (1716-1788), was King of Spain and the Spanish Indies (1759–1788), after ruling Naples as Charles VII and Sicily as Charles V (1734–1759), kingdoms he abdicated to his son Ferdinand. He was the fifth son of Philip V of Spain, and the eldest son of Philip's second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he suceeded to the Spanish throne on 10 August 1759, upon the death of his half-brother King Ferdinand VI of Spain, who left no heirs.
Small oval dish, painted with mother and child
Caneware conceit (shape 419 in Shape Book) in the form of an oval, tiered cake with sides made of lady fingers and white stoneware applied relief that simulates icing in a design of beading within arched and interlaced borders, on the top an intertwined laurel wreath with musical trophies inside, with a solid flat base with a single large firing hole.