A vessel consisting of three pieces of rock crystal and three mounts. The hemispherical bowl has an oval mouth and eight gadroons, the two frontal ones being the broadest, with a decoration of rounded leaves carved into arrises, and two large smiling masks, one in each of the broad gadroons. The knop has double gadroons and the foot is an inverted reproduction of the structure of the body on a sma
The vessel is made up of five parts of multicoloured jasper, possibly from Bohemia, and five mounts of silver gilt, enamelled gold and precious stones. The body is made up of a deep scallop shell carved with gadroons and a flat cover, also gadrooned, decorated with a mount with overlays of enamelled sprays of polychrome flowers enriched with rubies and diamonds. Similar but narrower mounts surroun