KERAMIC STUDIO 
85 
inches high, I^ondon, 1692, supported by a kneehng figure 
of Atlas, the cover surmounted by a figure of Fortune, 
weighing 87 ounces, 17 dwt., brought $16,500. An RHza- 
bethan tankard and cover, 7 f inches high, London, 1573, 
almost a duplicate of the one at the Ashmolean Museum, 
Oxford, 1574, illustrated in Cripp's Old English Plate, and 
weighing not quite 21 ozs., brought $8,500. Another 
tankard and cover, gilt all over, of the time of James I., 
8^ inches high, London, 1604, cost $8,600 for 22 ozs. A 
magnificent James I. rosewater ewer and dish, the ewer 14} 
inches high, the dish 17! inches in diameter, London, 1607, 
similar to one belonging to King Edward, Windsor Castle, 
shown as a frontispiece to Cripp's sixth edition, brought 
$20,250 for 100 ozs. 8 dwt. 
The gap between art values and art prices seems to be 
widening every day. 
FRUIT PLATE -A. B. LIENAU 
To be treated in orange and brown or blue and green. 
