Pipe bowl of dark blue jasper dip with white relief decoration that includes a grape vine around the upper edge and leafy vines and berries around the shank, the lower reservoir is a poor replacement (not Wedgwood), on the main body the relief image from the series Domestic Employment.

Pipe Bowl

Wedgwood

1875-1900

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Bone china "dragon lustre" vase of square shape with flared lip, the exterior glaze a runny, mottled luster blue with gilt borders in a lattice pattern at bottom, along each side edge, and at the outer lip, each side is decorated in gold with a stylized dragon, the interior a lighter turquoise color with, on two sides, a dragon motif, and on two sides a symbolic motif, inside the lip a border of gilt flower and leaf design.
Delicate porcelain lithophane in cast-iron holder, the lithophane depicts the scene "Brautwerbung" (Courting the Bride), model number 229 in the Plaue Porcelain Manufactory's Preis-Courant, and shows on the left a young woman seated under a tree chatting with a young man in knickers, who casually leans on a barrel with his legs crossed at the ankles; the lithophane holder with a square base decorated with scrolling foliage and with a smaller square pedestal upon which rests the foot of the lithophane comprised of leafy foliage, the stem of the lithophane in the form of a column that is enveloped by stylized acanthus fronds, the frame above, which can be removed from the stem, is rectangular and rests on two scrolling, leafy vines which emanate from the stem, with pierced leafy motifs on either side and the top with pierced, scrolling decoration and a shell-like finial.
Oval cameo of white Jasper ware with blue dip and appled white bas-relief in imitation of a carved classical cameo. Two women standing slightly overlapped in classical robes, part of an existing larger composition of the three Graces. One stands against a two-legged bench or seat
On a thick, rectangular plinth decorated on each side with the Greek key pattern, gilt, the top of the plinth is bronzed, rest two Egyptian sphinxes whose outstretched wings support an oval bowl which has been molded with a raised, pattern of loose ribbons on the sides and underneath with the head of Bacchus surrounded by grapes and leaves, the headdress of each sphinx is gilded and around the edge of the bowl is a band of gilding that extends to the two swan's head handles as well as the gadrooning on the bowl's shoulder, the conforming cover rests on the gilded, beaded edge of the bowl and has a gilded lotus finial.