Kingfisher, on Rock

Modeled by Ernest Light, Wedgwood

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One of a pair of silver, boat-shaped, covered sauceboats, each raised on stepped oval foot with beaded edge, the upper rim of the main body likewise beaded, with two large, loop handles with reeded accents, the fitted, domed cover notched to accommodate a ladle, with beaded urn finial, both the cover and the body on one side engraved with a stag crest.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Newton with a 'shooting star' on the right with a blue background, white portrait.(1642-1727) was an English natural philosopher and mathematician. Newton's formulation of the law of gravity from observing the fall of an apple came in 1666. He went on to devise a reflecting telescope and study Descartes' geometry. His most important published work is the Principia mathematica of 1684. His Optics first appeared in 1704. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Pair of teardrop-shaped earrings of dark blue jasper with white jasper bas relief, each earring suspended on a short chain set with two jargoons (faux stones) and hanging from a round dark-blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief in a pinwheel pattern and with a jargoon in the center, with gold screw back, the drops each with stiff leaf pattern above and beaded swags below, in the middle of each a series of classical figures comprised of .1) "Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion"; "Terpsichore"; "Hercules supporting the world"; and "Diana with stag"; and .2) "Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion"; "classical male figure"; "Hercules supporting the world"; and "classical male and female figures."
Small stick pin comprised of an oval, double-sided, light blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of on one side Jupiter – Jupiter seated with staff and eagle – and on the other Venus and Cupid set in a gold ropework mount on gold pin with a simple gold chain attached.