67 BOXWOOD BAS-RELIEF ATTRIBUTED TO HANS SCHWARZ AUGSBURG, 16TH CENTURY Composed of an architectural niche harboring the half-length figure of a richly clad personage in an embroidered garment with puffed sleeves, and wearing a medallion on a chain with an equestrian figure. To the right and left are allegorical figures of Life and Death, and upon the architrave bearing amorial shields are perched two roguish amorini flanking a wreath. At the base other amorial emblems and in reserve a Latin legend and the date 1524. In contemporary frame entirely covered with dark amber-colorcd tortoise-shell. Height, 111/4 inches; width with frame, 10 inches From the Spitzer legacies. [SEE ILLUSTRATION, PRECEDING PAGE] 68 CARVED WALNUT STATUETTE OF A KING BYZANTINE, 13TH CENTURY On a low seat of architectural design; the King is dressed in robes with embroidered borders. He holds an orb in his right hand. The stiffly formalized folds of the garment and the silver iridescente of the patina are particularly noteworthy. Height, 0/2 inches From the Spitzer legacies. 69 CARVED BAS-RELIEF OF EBONIZED BOXWOOD AND COLORED PASTE: CHARLES V GERMAN, 16TH CENTURY Profile bust to the right, bearded, wearing a toque. In mantle with ample folds, wearing the order of the Golden Fleece. Legend: CAROLVS DEI GRACIA CAISER. Slight repairs to the toque. Diameter, 2 inches Illustrated and described in « La Collection Spitzer », Paris, 1891, vol. 3, p. 269, No. 80. SALE, PARIS, 1893, CATALOGUE NUMBER 2202; Atlas, Plate LIII. [SEE ILLUSTRATION] 70 CARVED BAS-RELIEF OF EBONIZED BOXWOOD AND COLORED PASTE: THE SULTAN SOLIMAN GERMAN, 16TH CENTURY Profile bust to the right, wearing a turban and earrings. In a mantle with magnificently embroidered collar. Legend: SVLTAN SOLIMANI TVRCORVM IMPERATOR. Diameter, 2 inches Illustrated and described in « La Collection Spitzer », Paris, 1891, vol. 3, p. 269, No. 77. SALE, PARIS, 1893, CATALOGUE NUMBER 2199; Atlas, Plate LIII. [SEE ILLUSTRATION] 22
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