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Small cup-shaped vase with foot, of white stoneware covered with a brown glaze, the main body fluted and decorated with a series of cream and brown stripes, below the lip a band of cream with applied brown star-shaped and clover motifs between two rows of beading, the interior glazed brown.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in solid white jasper with dark blue dip and flat white relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a draped nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a draped nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask.
Silver communion cup with associated paten cover, the plain bell-shaped cup with flared lip and with two bands of molding at the waist, between the bands engraved with four interconnected rectangular reserves within which are leafy vines, on a spool-shaped stem with central baluster knop on spreading, molded foot stamped with bands of egg-and-dart ornament, the plain paten cover with a spool-shaped finial with flat knop engraved with the date 1571.
Small enameled copper box, rectangular, with dark blue ground and gold highlights with reserves on the sides containing small floral sprays, the lid painted in a reserve with the scene of a man and woman with a sheep in wooded landscape, the box inscribed on the inside with the French "Vous Appas armes mes Bras."