118 A Majolica plate, with St. Jerome, in a landscape: signed by Maestro Giorgio, 1521--imperfect £3 15s. 119 A fragment of a Majolica plate, with Mercury, with the initials of Maestro Giorgio, 1534 15s. 120 The agony in Gethsemane--a Limosine enamel £1 121 St. Dietburgha--painted on a caterpillar's web £1 6s. 122 A half dyptic, with two saints in relief in ivory, and Byzantine inscription £1 11s. 123 A crucifix, elaborately carved in boxwood, containing a rosary of silver thread £1 124 A large bronze Papal seal, with the Holy Family, and 8 smaller bronze seals--one of them, Johann Russell £2 5s. 125 Venus on a dolphin--a Venetian bronze, on oriental alabaster plinth £3 10s. 126 A bronze inkstand, supported on eagles, and surmounted by a figure £3 10s. 127 The Entombment--a relief, in bronze £10 10s. 128 A small ivory dyptic, with the Crucifixion, and the Virgin and Child, with two saints, in high relief, on gothic arches £10 10s. 129 A very interesting Pax, of Niello work, with Christ bearing his Cross, and appearing to Mary, inscribed above "Jacobus Suannes Cole"; the dead Christ, and emblems of the Crucifixion, in the lunette above £10 10s. 130 Another Pax, of niello, with the dead Christ and angels, inscribed beneath, "Pax tibi Pilastus," and frieze of arabesque; the Creation above--mounted in ivory £9 131 A curious bone tryptic, with the Crucifixion, attended by saints; St. Peter and St. Paul on the wings £8 18s. 6d. 132 A very interesting early Pax, of Niello, with the Virgin and Child enthroned, the latter holding a rosary; two saints kneeling on each side; a die on the ground in the centre [£2 15s.] The total amount realised at the sale was £1398 15s. 6d. AUTHOR'S PREFACE (1851)