Stirring stuff

Dates & Places of Origin, Materials & Uses please.

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Good Queen Bess

8a. Philip II of Spain

Looks very like the chap on the left

Hercule François de France of the House of valois, Duke of Alençon, Château-Thierry, Anjou, Berry and Touraine

Not unlike the chap on the right, Good Queen Bess called him her little frog

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Four vessels ~ not for sail ~

Can you identify their dates and cultures of origin and state their purposes?

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A Fuzzy Hellenistic bronze cupping pot of the 3rd century BC

Just a few vervels more

Any information about the following items will be appreciated

There seem to have been four main varieties of vervel or hawking ring which might crudely be likened to a washer, a shield with a hole, a signet ring and a poesy ring with the legend on the outside. They usually bore the arms, name or location of the bird's owner. Number four is in two parts to clamp on the hawk's leg, released by pushing a peg into the hole to compress a recurved leaf-spring.    

The word vervel is Dutch in origin meaning bored (having a hole bored in it) .                                        

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