Sugar Tongs

Charles White

About 1840

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On a round base with four feet in the form of cannons and decorated in relief with implements of war, the stem is comprised of a pyramid of cannon balls upon which rests a drum and a two-headed eagle with outstretched wings and wearing a shield on its breast with the image of St. George and the Dragon, the candle socket is in the form of a crown, the bobeche is a later addition.
Small Staffordshire salt-glazed culinary, or dessert, mold in the shape of a star.
Small round medallion of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white bas relief of an Offering to Jupiter – Jupiter is seated on a stool with a staff and an eagle by his side, a young maiden approaches him with a large round bowl - in a cut-steel mount set with two bands of faceted cut-steel beads and a wider band of small cut steel beads arranged in a floral pattern between single, larger, oval, faceted cut-steel beads, the reverse with a brass and steel pin (a later addition or repair)
Oval black basalt intaglio with profile portrait