19th C. Staffordshire Spill Vase with Doves and Snakes bank robbery which I think this one

which I think this one does

Carved into the left side of the front with thumb hole at top is LMR 1897

and then what could be a more romantic subject than this classical sculpture of a beautiful young man looking as if contemplating nothing less than his destiny and the meaning of life

in two different styles)  and animals on the two others

In a very nice lemon gold frame where it has clearly lived for a long time if not forever

19th C. Staffordshire Spill Vase with Doves and Snakes bank robbery which I think this oneSometimes one wants something that feels like a bit of Rococo fun, plus I love a snake, this one about to steal an egg from the nest of this pair of doves in what one could read as a clash between good and evil. 19th c. Staffordshire, with hand painted details in gold and black and green. The form is that of a spill vase, typically kept on the mantle and used for containing splints, spills, and tapers for transferring fire, for example to light a