The Pope in profile left praying before a crucifix.

Pope Pius VII (Gregor Barnabas Luigi Duke Chiaramonti, 1742-1823, 1800 Pope)

Modeled by Anton Friedrich König the Elder, Based on a medal by Tommaso Mercandetti, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1800

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Oval plaque of black basalt depicting Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion.
The small, gilt-bronze bust of the Emperor Franz I of Austria wearing the garment of a Roman ruler, his head crowned with a ribbon of laurel leaves, mounted on a square pedestal of cast iron and resting on a stepped, rectangular base, the pedestal decorated with the gilt-bronze coat of arms of the Austrian empire.
Simple silver sugar tongs decorated with bright cut engraving in a pattern of narrow, curving, intersecting bands comprised of scallops and dots, at the curved end in an oval reserve engraved the initials HMB, the pointed bowls with minimal prick-dot engraving.
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Nero (37-68 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name NERO impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.