Teapot with Cover

England

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Octagonal dark blue jasper cameo with white relief profile portrait of a man, set in silver as a buckle, pairs with AFI.3677.2008.1, cracked
Miniature saucer, or dish, of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the inner rim with a series of tiny relief scenes including flying Cupid with bow and arrow; a group of Cupids at work; Romulus/Remus with a Wolf; a standing figure; Cupids with a chariot (Bacchanalian scene).
Small hollow pedestal of solid light blue jasper with a darker blue jasper dip and with white jasper relief decoration, bell-shaped with a guilloche band at the lower edge and with four heavy legs of white jasper with ram's masks at the top and extending downward with leaf and berry decoration and ending in hoofed feet, on each of the four sides a small winged cupid with various implements as allegories of the four seasons, with a hole on the top.
Bust in profile right.