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Carol McNicoll

2002

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Egg-shaped tri-color jasper (dark blue, green, and white) perfume bottle with white relief figures on green panels on each side, neck broken and cap missing
Teapot and associated stand of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, the teapot raised on round foot decorated with bound reeds, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaf motifs and the main body with on one side the image of Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther and on the other Sportive Love, or the figure of a young maiden with a cupid balanced on her toe, both against a stippled ground, a band of guilloche runs around the pot at the shoulder, with laurel leaf and berry-molded spout and double, leaf-molded conjoined handle, the cover with stiff leaf motifs and a large draped cherub as finial, the stand with overlapping acanthus and anthemion motifs.
Heavily decorated, pear-shaped silver caster on round foot with reeded rim that is engraved with shell motifs, crosshatching and stippled ground, the lower body with engraved foliate motifs between four chased strapwork panels that terminate at the shoulder in winged cherub masks, the upper body likewise with four strapwork panels, between these are engraved scrolling motifs and a stippled ground, the tall, dome-like cover with six pierced panels comprised either of scrollwork or quatrefoils, the finial urn-shaped with ball tip.
Portrait bust in black basalt of the Greek poet Homer dressed in classical robes and cap on round socle.