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Delft-ware posset-pot with snake handles, and dish with 

 rosette and wheaisheaf border ; also, a salt-glazed soup- 

 tureen with shell-handles ; given by A. A. de Pass, Esq. 



Inkstand of Plymouth ware, with rockwork and tree- 

 stump, date about 1769. 



Leeds ware tankard, with busts and inscription, dated 

 1780; and patch- box with rustic scene, and M F with date 

 1776 inside the lid ; given by Dr. E. J. Sidebotham. 



"Form" for shaping plates, with white glaze, found on 

 the site of the old Leeds works ; given by F. G. Hilton 

 Price, Esq., F.S.A. 



Terra-cotta plaque, with basket of flowers in relief, by 

 Jonathan Harmer, of Heathfield, Sussex, about 1803, made 

 for insertion in tombstone ; given hj W. Cleverly Alexander, 

 Esq. 



Porcelain cup with ogee edges, and slight decoration 

 in grey (medium for gilding) ; according to tradition, a 

 specimen of Christian's porcelain, but probably Chinese ; 

 given by the Liverpool Free Public Museum. 



(d.) Glass. — Amphora and coloured fragments, of the 

 Roman period, from Oxyrhynchus and Ehnasya ; given by 

 the Egypt Exploration Fund. 



Cups, bottles, and enamelled fragments of Arab glass, 

 from Koos, Egypt. 



Two phials found on the site of the Royal Hotel, 

 Blackfriars Bridge, London ; given by J. Barker, Esq. 



Two phials found 12 ft. deep in High Street, Bloomsbury 

 given by C. J. Clarke, Esq. 



Blue goblet, with spots of coloured enamels, with original 

 wooden case, Venetian, early 16th centuiy. 



Specimens of the "canes" used in the manufacture of 

 mosaic portraits, about 1850, by a Venetian process now 

 extinct, and strings of minute beads ; given by Cav. Salvatore 

 Arbib. 



(6.) Collection illustrating various Religions :— 



(a.) Christianity.— Fragment of amphora with drawing 

 of a military saint, from the excavations of Drs. Grenfell and 

 Hunt at Oxyrhynchus ; and a number of pottery lamps with 

 Christian symbols, from the excavations of Dr. Petrie at 

 Ehnasya, Roman period; given by the Egypt Exploration 

 Fund. 



(b.) Buddhism. — A series of sculptures in stone and 

 steatite from the north-west frontier of India. 



Two stone carvings from a temple at Hoti Mardan^ near 

 Peshawur, explored by the Government about 1873; given 

 by W. LI. Nash, Esq., f.s.a. 



Stone carving of Buddha enthroned, with verse on the 

 back, 12th century ; and a bust in terra-cotta, both from 

 N. India ; given by J. Brighouse, Esq. 



