Small brown stoneware jug of bottle shape on slightly flared foot, the body incised with a diamond pattern, the neck turned, with large loop handle, set with silver mounts on foot and neck forming a hinged lid (possibly of later date)

Jug

Raeren, Germany (now Belgium)

1590-1600

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Covered urn (cover not original) of white stoneware resting on a small black basalt plinth, the body of the urn covered with an agate, or crystalline, glaze in shades of gray, browns and blues designed to resemble stone, the two ear-shaped handles left white and with traces of gilding, the handles terminate in masks of bearded tritons at the shoulder, the long neck with an extended lip.
Small, oval plaque (truncated at the lower edge) of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration of the Muse Urania who presided over astronomy, and often holds a compass used by astronomers in her hand, standing in full figure next to a pedestal with a globe at her feet.
Small round medallion of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white bas relief of an Offering to Jupiter – Jupiter is seated on a stool with a staff and an eagle by his side, a young maiden approaches him with a large round bowl - in a cut-steel mount set with two bands of faceted cut-steel beads and a wider band of small cut steel beads arranged in a floral pattern between single, larger, oval, faceted cut-steel beads, the reverse with a brass and steel pin (a later addition or repair)
Bust in profile right in chemise dress with ermine mantle. Charlotte was the eldest daughter of King Friedrich Wilhelm III and Queen Luise of Prussia, 1817 married Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich of Russia, taking the name Alexandra Feodorovna.