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it. This beautiful object, which came from the palace of 

 Prince Demidov at San Donato, is as remarkable for its state 

 of preservation as for the exquisite finish of its details. 

 Among the other arms and armour are a fine damascened 

 morion of the same country and of about the same date as 

 the shield ; four arquebuses of French and German work of 

 the 16th and I7th centuries, two of them richly chased with 

 designs in relief and gilt ; two unusually good Italian swords, 

 one with a chased iron hilt damascened in gold, the other of 

 silver ornamented with niello, and dating from about the year 

 1500. An object of similar work to the shield and helmet is 

 a small cabinet with drawers, the fronts of which are of steel 

 richly damascened and chased with scrolls. 



The enamels include one piece only of the early champleve 

 work of Limoges, the rest, thirty-five pieces in all, being of 

 later painted enamel. The earlier piece is a fine reliquary, 

 decorated with scenes from the martyrdom of St. Valerie, 

 one of the patron saints of Limoges, and with a number of 

 ornamental motives on the back and ends. This specimen 

 probably dates from the end of the 13th century. The 

 principal pieces among the later enamels are : — A portrait of 

 Catherine of Lorraine, Duchesse de Montpensier, signed by 

 Leonard Limousin ; four large dishes, two of them by Martial 

 Courtois, a third, of exceptional brilliancy of colour, by 

 Susanne Court, and the fourth from the hand of Jean 

 Courtois ; three caskets, one from the Bernal Collection, by 

 an unknown artist who signs LP., the second delicately 

 painted in grey monochrome by one of the Penicaud family, 

 the third by Susanne Court, from whose hand also is a fine 

 ewer ; a large panel composed of fifteen plaques, a copy of 

 the " Quos ego," of Marc Antonio, probably by Jean Peni- 

 caud 11. ; a panel painted in an unusual style with a portrait 

 of Diana of Poitiers by Francois Limousin, and a small 

 portrait bust of a young man signed by Leonard Limousin. 



The glass comprises seven pieces only ; among them is an 

 Arab mosque lamp of the 14th century, a fine standing cup 

 and cover of clear glass, and another smaller cup of opaque 

 blue glass, both Venetian of the 15th century ; a third 

 Venetian cup is interesting from the shape being that of a 

 German mazer bowl, while it, bears the date 1518 above two 

 coats of arms, evidently those of German families. The 

 most important example is, however, the Arab glass goblet 

 from the Palmer Morewood family, in a French mount of 

 silver-gilt of about the same date as the glass itself, viz., the 

 14th century. The small series of majolica, nine pieces in 

 all, is of the later decorative kind of which so much was 

 produced at Urbino in the second half of the 16th century. 

 They include a handsome cistern from the Fountaine collec- 

 tion, a pair of two-handled vases made by Orazio Fontana, 

 formerly at Strawberry Bill, and two pairs of pilgrim-bottles 

 from the Fountaine and Gavet collections. 



