72 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Gibbon, the historian, formerly in the possession of the Earl 

 of Sheffield. 



" Peter Pindar's " tobacco-stopper of ivory ; presented by 

 G. C. Boase, Esq. 



(b.) Foreign. -An enamelled pax, apparently Italian, 

 early IGth century. 



A cross of copper gilt, with plaques of champleve enamel on 

 the arms. Italian, 14th century. 



Plaque of Limoges enamel, with the Nativity, probably 

 painted by Nardon Penicaud. 



A comb of the 14th century, in gesso, with subjects from the 

 Romance of Tristram ; silver seal of John de St. Lawrence, 

 set with an antique intaglio. Two cinque-cento cameos in 

 onyx, with portraits of Philip II., and a lady ; bronze 

 medallion and plaque of Italian work, lOth century ; two 

 hemispherical boxes of brass, very delicately engraved and 

 inlaid with silver, signed by Mahmud-al-Kurdy, who probably 

 worked at Venice ; silver patch-box with enamel, German ; 

 all presented by Sir A. Wollaston Franks. 



Matrix of the seal of the Conde de Rivadeo, and an 

 enamelled box, probably German ; presented by Professor 

 W. M. Flinders Petrie. 



A cuir-bouilli pencase, and a German powder-horn of 

 enamelled silver ; presented by Max Rosenheim, Esq., F.S.A. 



An astrolabe made at Antwerp by Aegidius Quiniet. 



Dial by Caspar Vopelius of Cologne, 16.51; ivory dial made 

 at Paris; and sundial made at Palermo, 1634. 



An Arab quadrant made by Muhammad, son of Ahmed, at 

 Almeria in Spain, A.D. 1326-7. 



Bronze bell made by Max le Ser, 1.574; presented by 

 Colonel F. Trotter. 



Engraved portrait on silver of Willelmus Dilichius, 1637. 



Iron centre of a Spanish buckler; presented by Charles H. 

 Nevill, Esq. 



Nine draughtsmen of impressed wood with historical 

 subjects; presented by John Chester, Esq. 



Two French snuff-boxes; presented by Henry Levy, Esq. 



(5.) Ceramic and Glass Collections : — 



(a.) Chinese and Japanese Porcelain, Persian, <&c. — A few 

 additions have been made to the Franks Collection. 

 Chinese plate with the arms of Hanbury ; presented by 

 Mrs. R. D. Hill. Chinese coffee cup, with the initials H. F. 

 Luttrell ; presented by C. Fownes Luttrell, Esq. 



A number of Indian, Persian, and Rhodian tiles, 47 

 specimens ; presented by Sir A. Wollaston Franks. 



Fragment of a bowl of enamelled pottery, signed by 

 Esh Shemy, found at Fostat; presented by Henry Wallis, 

 Esq. 



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