75 
with a device, or a coat of arms of some town in Holland or 
Germany; but, from two examples now in the Museum, it would 
seem that they also came from France. 
24 and 25. Have inscriptions containing initial letters, with the 
date, 1672 ; also the legend, je . ne . mestone . pas. The 
word “ estonner” is the origin of our verb to stun, or dull the 
sense. 
26. Stone ware jug, marked in blue R. W. 
27. Jug, apparently of Spanish manufacture. 
CASE G G. 
The specimens in this Case, not otherwise indicated, are deposited 
by Mr. Nightingale. 
1. A Majolica dish, subject, the departure of -ZEneas from Carthago. 
Painted by Francesco Durantino, about 1544. 
The Italian pottery, generally known under the name of Majolica 
or Raffaelle ware, was very extensively made during the fifteenth 
and sixteenth centuries ; works of very high artistic value were 
produced, the designs generally supplied by the great painters of 
that period. 
The Italian Majolica is soft pottery, with a thick stanniferous 
glaze ; upon this ground the painting is made, and the whole fixed 
at one firing. 
2. Oval dish of Palissy ware, subject, the sacrifice of Isaac. De¬ 
posited by Mrs. Montgomery. 
Bernard Palissy is the glory of the French potters ; about the 
middle of the sixteenth century he succeeded, by incredible perse¬ 
verance, in making an original kind of pottery, genuine specimens 
of which are excessively rare. He took for his models the fishes 
and reptiles of his country, which were moulded in high relief, and 
coloured. He also represented sacred and mythological subjects. 
The successors of Palissy continued the fabric for a long time, but 
contributed much to degenerate the art. 
3. Early English agate ware. 
4. Staffordshire white ware. 
5. Leeds cream coloured ware. 
6. Early Wedgwood. 
7. Wedgwood. 
8. Wedgwood plaques. 
9. Chelsea porcelain, 1745. 
10. Oriental porcelain decorated at Chelsea. 
11 Chelsea. 
12. Chelsea Derby. 
13. Derby. 
14. Early Worcester. 
15. Worcester transfer printing. 
