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From M. Adolphe Lion : toilet pot, fayence, with decoration inunder- 

 glaze blue and mark FB in monogram, Lille, circa 1720; covered cup 

 and saucer, porcelain, with gros bleu ground and gilt decoration, Vincennes, 

 circa 1750. 



By purchase : 



With the aid of the National Art-Collections Fund and the Christy 

 Trustees : carved stem-post of a Viking ship, found at Appels, near 

 Termonde, on the Scheldt, Belgium. 



With the aid of the National Art-Collections Fund : Bronze candle- 

 stick from Heiligenkreuz, Austria, fourteenth century; a Nuremberg 

 glass goblet with cover in Venetian style, sixteenth century, a Nuremberg 

 amber-glass plate, engraved, early seventeenth century, and a Bohemian 

 glass tumbler with painted figures, about 1700. 



Copper ikon with bust of Christ ; Russian, dated 1594. 



German engraved glass goblet, dated 1630. 



Lead weight with the stamp of the Plumbers' Company, seventeenth 

 century, found at Greenford, Middlesex. 



Byzantine bronze medallion with scenes from the life of Our Lord, 

 symbols, and an inscription, seventh-eighth century A.D. 



By exchange : 



From Mr, and Mrs. Norman Gask : silver spoon with " wodewose " 

 knop, fifteenth century. 



By bequest : 



From Mr. Wallace Elliott : 113 objects of English pottery and 

 porcelain. 



On loan : 



Deposited by Milburn Estates, Ltd., through Dr. and Mrs. F. Elgee : 

 three dug-out funeral canoes, and various associated grave goods, from 

 a Bronze Age burial mound at Loose Howe, Yorkshire. 



Oriental Antiquities. 



By donation : — 



From the National Art-Collections Fund : gold wine-bowl inscribed 

 with two couplets in floral Kufic and decorated with birds and arabesques. 

 Persian, eleventh or twelfth century. 



From Mr. Oscar Raphael : fragmentary bowl of lustre ware from 

 Fostat, ninth century. 



From Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winslow, in memory of the late Charles 

 Ricketts, R.A. : Japanese painting of Amida with two Bosatsu, attributed 

 to Tosa Mitsumasa (fourteenth century). 



From Mr. E. W. Tuke : twelve Japanese prints by Kiyomitsu, 

 Masafusa, Okumura, Masanobu, Harunobu, Harushige, Utamaro, Hiro- 

 shige, Kunisada and Yoshitora. 



