Lace

Attributed to Belgium

About 1900

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Tricolor jasper barber bottle, the main body of solid white jasper with yellow and black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the bottle on round foot with band of overlapping acanthus leaves, the body with stiff leaf motifs that extend upward from the stem, with four large molded masks of Bacchus at the shoulder atop a band of laurel leaves and berries that extends around the entire shoulder, the masks above garlands of leafy grape vines with bunches of grapes, on each of four sides a small roundel of blue jasper with allegories of the seasons in the form of cupids with the relevant seasonal attributes, surrounded by a white border, the long narrow neck with floral garlands held by small ram's heads below a band of beading, with a band of crossed ribbons at the lip, the conforming cover with stiff leaf motifs and ball finial.
Bust in profile right in Austrian general's uniform with the Order of the Golden Fleece, other medals, and ermine mantle.
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief of Soldier Bringing the News of the Death of Patroclus shows two men mourning at a head hung up at an altar.
Very delicate, thin medallion of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip, on the front the relief scene of the Bourbonnais Shepherd.