vase

Low vase and cover of cloudy yellow and red jasper, with two handles and mounts of gold, enamelled and jewelled; handles are two slender scrolls of gold fixed under the lip and on the gold mount of the foot, enamelled on all sides and each having mask at upper end and in middle; foot edged with gold, engraved with festoons, filled with translucent enamels, having six cartouches in relief, each set with square ruby or diamond; dotted ground; convex cover, unmounted, enamelled finial in centre with double mask of Cupid supported by two cornucopiae and surmounted by square setting containing a ruby crystal.