Potpourri with Cover

England

1800-1810

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Oval medallion of white jasper with green dip and white bas relief of Poor Maria – a young woman seated under a tree, weeping, with a small dog – mounted in a steel bracelet, the medallion held to the face with prongs, the surrounding border engraved with crosshatching and on either side a simple flower with leafy motifs, the band is attached to the face with hinges and is engraved with a stippled border and on either side a triangle with similar leafy motifs, with adjustable hook and chain clasp.
Creamware, Queen's-shape dinner plate enameled in rose-purple with a border of husk festoons and botanical flowers in the well, the "Husk" pattern as supplied to the Empress Catherine II of Russia in 1770.
Delicate, thin medallion of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration with the scene of Poor Maria.
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Napoleon (1769-1821) facing left wearing a laurel wreath. Napoleon was the French Emperor reigning between (1804-1814) before taking control of Italy between 1805 and 1814.He was banished to Saint Helena where he died of cancer of the stomach with his body being returned tio Paris in 1840, 19 years after his death to be placed in the crypt of the Invalides.