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A drinking vessel of black earth, with ditto. *

A salt-seller of old fayence supported by dolphins.

Two blue and white dishes and seven plates of old china;
a legacy from Mrs. Henrietta Conway, sister of Francis earl
of Hertford.

Two old blue and white water-plates.

A copper dish with a foot, enamelled with the story of
Abraham and Melchizedec; a present from Geo. William
Hervey, earl of Bristol.

A basket of Seve china, blue, gold, and white.

A Staffordshire Etruscan vase.

A blue vafe of antique Roman glafs with a boy's head. *

Four water-plates of old coloured china.

An urn and cover of Volterra alabaster.

Two ewers of ancient glafs. *

A blue and white square pot for flowers, of old china.

A speculum of kennel-coal, in a leathern-cafe. It is cu-
rious for having been used to deceive the mob by Dr. Dee,
the conjurer, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. It was in
the collection of the Mordaunts earls of Peterborough, in
whose catalogue it is called, *the black stone into which Dr.
Dee used to call his spirits.* From the Mordaunts it passed to
lady Elizabeth Germayne, and from her to John laft duke
of Argyll, whose son, lord Frederic Cambell, gave it to
Mr. Walpole.

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