Key

  • Titles Key (Descriptive)
  • Medium iron
  • Dimensions Overall: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mr. Jules Gourary through Carlebach Galleries, 1957.44.3
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Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief of Venus and Cupid, set in gold and encircled in seed pearls as a pendant, with gold chain
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Gladstone (1809-1898), self-framed. He was a British Liberal and earlier conservative politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times (1868–74, 1880–85, February–July 1886 and 1892–94), more than any other person, and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister; he resigned for the final time when he was 84 years old.
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Charles V (1500-1558), was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1506. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia. As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets"
Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware