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Figure of a youth holding a shield in his right hand and a torch in his left, with crossed hammer and gad and a cornucopia below.
Self-framed oval plaque of black basalt molded in relief illustrating the marriage feast of Perseus and Andromeda at the moment it is violently interrupted by Phineas, to whom Andromeda was formerly betrothed; outnumbered by Phineas and his followers, Perseus is seen in the foreground holding the severed head of Medusa, who he had recently slain, above a pile of bodies, to the left is a banquet table below a drawn curtain, in the background is an architectural structure and the arrival of more of Phineas's followers.
Oval medallion with relief profile portrait of Francesco Scipione (1675-1755), , the Italian writer, art critic, and antiquarian, who published many important early works on Etruscan art
Small figure of a reaper or an allegory of autumn made of white soft-paste porcelain covered with a clear, lead-based glaze, in the form of a naked putto or cherub leaning against a coral-like "stump" and draped with a cloth that is belted at the waist, standing on an irregular, rocky base, under his left arm he holds a thick sheaf of wheat, his right arm is raised and outstretched and in his right hand he holds something, which has broken off (perhaps a sickle).