Pantaloons

20th century

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One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. Europe: the figure of a female child wearing a white tunic decorated with flowers and cinched together with a yellow ribbon, over her shoulders she wears draped a yellow and red cloak, at her feet are symbols of the arts, sciences, and religion such as paintbrushes and a painter's palette, sheet music, books, and a bishop's miter scattered amongst flowers, in her right had she holds an orb, her left hand raised and outstretched, on her head a crown.
Oval blue jasper cameo with white relief scene of Cupid with swan, set in pinchbeck brass as buckle
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Napoleon (1769-1821) facing left wearing a laurel wreath. Napoleon was the French Emperor reigning between (1804-1814) before taking control of Italy between 1805 and 1814.He was banished to Saint Helena where he died of cancer of the stomach with his body being returned tio Paris in 1840, 19 years after his death to be placed in the crypt of the Invalides.
Large oval plaque of light blue jasper with blue jasper dip and in high white relief the figure of Diomedes, hero of the Trojan War, with cloak thrown over his shoulder and sword under his arm.