Portable Letter Copying Machine; Inkwell and Bottle

Designed by James Watt, Birmingham, England

About 1800

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Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration depicting on the left the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche and on the right Sacrifice to Hymen with a decorative element in the middle, two laurel branches surrounding a tripod brazier with flame and two crossed scepters behind it.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in black jasper with white jasper relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying Cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage. There is little to no shading and the modeling is very crisp.
Bust in profile right.
Tablet of solid white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white relief decoration with the scene "Blind Man's Bluff," including seven small boys at play with two small stools in between the groups.