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17 Four Royal Dresden cups and saucers, slop bason and cream ewer, mounted in silver gilt, painted in a masterly manner, with landscapes and sea views

18 Four Japan chocolate cups and covers

19 Three old white and gold Japan basons speckled with flowers, and brown edges

20 Four shaped richly enamelled Japan dishes

21 Two Raphael ware plates, painted with historic subjects

22 Two Ditto salvers ditto

23 Six embossed fine sea-green desert dishes

24 Six shaped old Japan fruit dishes of blue piony pattern

25 Two very extraordinary Japan dishes, of matchless quality

26 A pair of massive or-moulu candlesticks, supported by chimeras, richly chased, and gilt

27 A pair of ditto

28 Two old Derby montephis, blue and gold, with borders of flowers, equal to old Seve

29 Nine comportiers of the same

30 Eight ditto

31 Twenty-four plates

32 Twenty-two ditto

33 Six shaped Japan dishes of slate colour, bordered and with flowers in the centre

34 Six egg-shell landscape plates—very fine

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35 Six very curious pattern enamelled plates, with shells, &c.

36 A pair of silver candlesticks in Chinese taste

37 A PAIR OF VERY RICH AND CURIOUS SILVER-GILT SCONCES, with Royal devices. Formerly belonged to King William and Queen Mary

38 A PAIR OF DITTO

39 A silver-gilt ewer and cover of elegant form, finely engraved with masks, scrolls &c. in the Tuscan style, with ebony handles

40 AN IVORY TANKARD AND COVER, with fine carving representing the Battle of the Centaurs, Satyrs, &c. in old silver chased and gilt mounting

41 A Circular Deep SALVER of LIMOSIN ENAMEL, on copper, embellished with a Procession of Diana and Nymphs returning from the Chace; the border of Raffaellesque device, the bowl of the salver also externally decorated with masks and ornaments.

The date is inscribed in enamel, 1563, P. R. It was made for Henry II. of France, and was presented by him to Diane de Poictiers. It is mounted with a central boss bearing her cypher, a triple crescent, and inscription; and the border also enriched with monograms

42 A BOTTLE OF PALE SEA GREEN ORIENTAL CHINA, of great antiquity, incrusted with flowers in relief, in compartments, with silver gilt spout and handle in the Gothic taste. The cover is embellished with paintings in enamel and the arms of Joan of Arragon, Queen of Naples, the friend of Petrarch. The handle, rim and foot bear the legend of the House of Anjou, in Gothic characters upon blue enamel.

N.B. This Vase, besides the value it derives from the historic circumstances connected with it, is further curious being the earliest known specimen of Porcelain introduced from China into Europe, as it refers to a period earlier than the circumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope, by the Portuguese.

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43 A CABINET of the GREATEST CURIOSITY, composed of Pear-tree and other woods, from the PALACE at WHITEHALL, and executed from designs of HOLBEIN for KING HENRY the VIIIth.

The four fronts present each an Architectural Façade, with two folding-doors, on the panels of which is Sculptured a Battle with Figures in high Relief, and marked with the greatest spirit

The doors within are inlaid with designs in the taste of that time. The drawers are separated by beautifully carved Terminal Figures, and the fronts of the drawers with Historical Subjects, in Bas-relief, with moral inscriptions in Latin verse.

The whole is supported on a Sculptured Arcade, inlaid with Heraldic Devices

44 A PAIR of CANDELABRA of SILVER CHASED and GILT, supported on feet shaped as Lizards

These superb pieces of Plate are truly in classical taste, being executed from the design of a Candelabrum found at HERCULANEUM.

45 A PAIR of DITTO

46 A VESSEL, of compressed oval shape, formed of a LARGE BLOCK of SARDONYX hollowed out, and the surface incrusted with vine leaves of good design and sharp execution. A pair of Satyr's Heads are sculptured as Handles to the Vase; the bottom is externally carved with foliage, and