["Rearispit 12", "Executed under the direction of J.Ball, Bank-seller to the Royal Exchange, the Prince of Wales, London April 6th 1786.", "1. The Tape. 2. The Supper Service. 3. The Laps of the Queen's Porcelain.", "Engraved by J. B. P. T. P. T. P. T. P. T. P. T. P. T. P

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OF A VERY VALUABLE
COLLECTION

Cameos, Intaglios, and Precious Stones,
AND OTHER
CURIOSITIES;

BEING PART OF
A LATE MUCH CELEBRATED CABINET,

MANY OUT OF THE

ARUNDEL COLLECTION;

Which will be SOLD by AUCTION,

BY
Mr. SKINNER and Co.

On THURSDAY the 8th of JUNE, 1786,

AT TWELVE O'CLOCK,
ON THE PREMISES,

In PRIVY-GARDEN, WHITEHALL;

LATE THE PROPERTY OF

The Duchefs Dowager of Portland,
DECEASED:

To be viewed Three Days preceding the Sale, between the Hours of Ten and Four o'Clock.

CATALOGUES may be had on the PREMISES, and of Mr. SKINNER and
Cº, ALDERSGATE-STREET.

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It cost the Duchefs 39
quinees at the sale of
James West Esq.

4147 A very curious Rotary, by BENEFUTO CELLINI, said to be the Rotary of HENRIETTA MARIA, Queen of King CHARLES I. nuo, in her necessarys, pawned it to the Duke of OREANS. It confits of six plumb and fifty cherry-flames; the first myof curiously carved with parts of biftory, the latter with heads of emperors; and on the reverse his emblems and matters.—of which a manufcript account is annexed 46-9-0.

It cost the Duchefs 50 quinees—

4148 A most remarkable fine ditts, by DITTO, said to have been the property of Pape CLEMENT VII. confiting of thirty-two plumb-flames of exquisit workmanship of Sculptures on both fides, in relieve; and between each flame is a pear, 32 in number, with a larger one on the top of the tafel—a manufcript account is annexed 01-18-0.

4149 A piece of carving in wood, representing landfaples, with views, in which is introduced water with waffles full-g, and on land various representations of kunsing, with boar, flog, dogs, and men on boarback.—the whole executed in a manner that is beyond description, and in the highart prefervation 15-15-0.

4150 A gold box, with an exceeding curious mofaic top and bottom 7-7-0.

4151 A small chimaera of fine antique mefic, fet in gold as a ring, and turns upon a swivel. The figure has the wings and feet of a bird, with a human face, and seems to be an Hieroglyphic 13-2-6.

This was S.W. Hamilton's
kings bought by Mr. Towleray.

4152 A precious fragment of an antique intaglio, in an exceeding fine carnelian, fet in gold for a ring. It represents HERCULES as low as the wnaſ, fitting in a ſiſt, with a lion's skin for a ſail, one of the paws is ſuited by a string, which baps over the head of HERCULES, and his ſtrenght in neck and back is wonderfully expressed in ſo finall a compafis 47-5-0.

This article and the three that
follow are also of S.W. Hamiltons.

4153 A cameo of the head of AUGUSTUS CERAR, upon a remarkable fine onyx, the head white, upon a jacynct ground, the workmanship of ſuperslative excellence. It was found at Malta 226-5-0.

Bought by the Duke of Portland.

4154 The head of JUPITER SERAPIS, cut out of a green balfaster, a myſ inimitable piece of ſculpture, of Egyptian workmanship, from the Barberini cabinet; the fixe about 4 inches. The countenance is highly expreſſive of ſublimity and dignity, tempered with sweetneſs and grace. Sprawners head, theقدم has neareselv'd the dusting-stroom.

bought by H. Horace Walpoole.

4155 The moſt celebrated antique VASE, or SEPULCHRAL URN, from the Barberini cabinet, at Rome. It is the ideality un which contained the ſlade of the Roman emperour ALEXANDER SEVERUS, and his mother MAMME, which was diſpited in the earth about the year 1625 after CHRIST, and was dug up by a der of Pape BARBERINI, named URBAN VIII. between the years 1625 and 1644. The materials of which it is compoſed emulate an onyx, the ground a rich transparent dark amethystine colour, and the ſnowy figures which adorn it are in bas relief, of workmanship above all emconium, and, in such cannot but excite in us the highest idea of the arts of the ancients. Its dimenſions are 9 inches and 3 quarters high, and 21 Inches and 3 quarters in circumference. A more particular account of this famous vase may be found in Montfaucon's Antiquities, vol. V. book II. chap. VI. In Sig. Bartoli delle Sepulchri Antichi. In the Ædes Barberinæ. In Wright's Breval's, and Mifon's Travels. In Winckleman on the Arts of the Ancients, &c. &c. 1029-0-0.

Bought for the Duke of Portland.

4156 A very fine gold cup and falver, weight 44 oz. 15 dwts. 166-0-0.

FINIS.

as the Duchefs paid 2000 for the Vase, the Top of the Augustus with the Hestacy of the Duke bought the Vase and the Augustus for 265, as the Top with the Hercules produced 220, the Vase and Augustus really cost the family 3045 L.