6^ ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



monsters, and with lai-oe crystal balls ; from a church at 

 Adana, near Iskanderun ; French work of the 13th century. 



Reliquary in the form of a figure of the Virgin seated, with 

 shield of arms in champleve enamel, copper gilt, and en- 

 graved with figures of Our Lord and two disciples. French, 

 loth century. From the East. 



Small seal of green stone with a figure of the Virgin. By- 

 zantine, 10th century. 



Copper badges enamelled with armorial and other devices ; 

 from Spain, loth and 16th century work. 



Pair of candlesticks of bronze engraved Avith minute orna- 

 ment, outlined with silver ; Venetian, early IGth century ; 

 and three German brass salvers of the loth century, one of 

 them of unusual size ; presented by Sir A. Wollaston Franks, 



K.C.B. 



A hook of iron, inlaid with bronze of Arab work, and two 

 other pieces of similar work inlaid with silver. 



Bronze celestial globe, made from the design of Abu'l 

 Husein Abdelrahim es Siify in the year of the Hejira 834 

 (=A.D. 1430). 



Another made by P. Petit, 1G59 ; presented by H. Yates 

 Thompson, Esq. 



A cup dial of copper gilt, made by Bartholomew, Abbot of 

 Aldersbach, in Bavaria, 1554. A cube dial by D. Beringer, 

 17th century. A copper gilt folding dial by Hans Troschel, 

 1609, another of ivory by the same maker, and a third, of 

 ivory, by Conrad Karner. 



A brass square with radial index, German, dated, 1573 ; a 

 gunner's level engraved with Mars, and another by G. Z,, 

 1619; presented by Max Rosenheim, Esq., f.s.a. 



Square dial made by J. Ramminger, of Stuttgart, 1704. 



Bronze model of a church with square tower ; Italian, early 

 15th century. 



A brass case with an elaborate inscription and designs; it 

 appears to have belonged to some object made for Marc An- 

 tonio Fregoso, son of a Doge of Genoa, in 1516; a statuette 

 of the Virgin and Child, Flemish, late 16th century ; a carved 

 horn box, medallion portrait of Victor Amadeus III., of Sar- 

 dinia, and a number of small antiquities from the collections 

 of Mr. Josiah Cato and the Rev. Dr. Sparrow Simpson : all 

 presented by Sir A. Wollaston Franks, k.c.b. 



Terra-cotta figure of Neptune, a design for a fountain, pro- 

 bably Florentine work of the 16th century; presented by 

 Baron Ferdinand Rothschild. 



A pear-wood mould for making relief portraits of George 

 Duke of Saxony, 1530-1539, a work of unusual excellence ; a 

 cuirbouilli powder flask, with a fleur-de-lis, 16th century, a 

 casket of the same material of the I7th century, and an en- 

 graved gourd ; presented by Max Rosenheim, Esq., f.s.a. 



Part of an iron gauntlet of the 14th century, found in West- 

 phalia ; presented by Stadtrath Richard Zschille, 



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