Pierre Gassend(i) (1592-1655), French Philosopher and Scientist

Model after a medal (1648) by Jean Warin II, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

1798-1800

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Round covered sugar bowl modeled to look like a cauliflower, the bowl with overlapping leaves and stem glazed green, the domed cover resembling the white florets, with cauliflower finial (the cover is not original to the bowl).
Oval box with pink raised floral design.
Bulb pot in the form of an oval barrel, the body glazed black with bands of green, the removable insert cover with two fitments to accommodate bulbs and with two larger and five smaller air holes in the insert cover, the interior and the underside are glazed green, the topside of the insert cover is covered with a tortoiseshell glaze.
Small brooch or buckle comprised of a round, white jasper medallion with dark blue dip and white jasper bas relief of a seated classical warrior, possibly Achilles, set in a cut-steel mount of pointed oval shape and adorned with faceted cut-steel beads around the medallion, which are then set in a semi-random pattern, the downward turned edges engraved in a simple pattern of graduated upside-down V’s.