Rulers of England – Henry VIII

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Censer, or incense burner, of white stoneware covered with brown glaze under a clear pearl glaze, drum shaped with a series of vertical white stripes around the body and gilt floral garlands held by rams' heads with gilt paterae between, with flat perforated cover with a central opening in the form of a two-handled bowl, likewise with vertical white stripes.
Rectangular blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides, depicting one of Hercules’ twelve labors, given to him by Eurystheus, to steal the Golden Apples of immortality from the Garden of the Hesperides on Mt. Atlas. Originally modelled by John Flaxman in 1787
Probably a later cast of the obverse of a medal commemorating the restoration of the Coliseum after 1825.
Oval black basalt intaglio with profile portrait