Pocket Watch Holder

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin, or Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1825

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Oval tri-color jasper (dark blue, lilac, and white) cameo with white relief sacrificial scene with polished edges.
Creamware pitcher with a pearl glaze molded in high relief with a fluted loop handle with leafy terminals highlighted in green and blue and a leafy spout highlighted in blue, with a raised blue band at the shoulder and below it against a stippled ground the portraits of three men, on one side a man clutching a jar within a reserve outlined in green, above him a banner that reads SPENDTHRIFT supported by a portrait in profile left, under the spout the portrait of William Shakespeare with brown hair and wearing a blue cloak, with a two-part banner that reads SHAKESPEAR / THE POET, likewise supported by two portraits in profile left, on the other side in a reserve similar to the first, a man with a bag of coins and a banner above that reads THE MISER along with a portrait in profile left.
Candlestick with figure of a dog and two birds surrounded by bocage
Round black basalt intaglio with profile portrait, "ALEXANDRE I EMPEREUR/DE TOUTES LES RUSSIES"