473 TWO OBJECTS OF SILVER FRENCH, 17TH CENTURY (a) SILVER INKWELL IN THE FORM OF A COLUMNAR PLINTH Cylindrical, with gadrooned exterior. Glass cup of later addition. Parcel-gilt. • Height, 11/2 inches From the Spitzer legacies. (b) MOUNT OF A SALTCBLLAR, SILVER PARCEL-GILT DUTCH, 18TH CENTURY Bowl-shaped, with delicately ajouré foliations. The base gilded and with fleur-de-lys. Poinçon of Rotterdam. Height, 11/2 inches From the Spitzer legacies. 474 SILVER BAS-RELIEF BY GIOVANNI BERNARD! DE CASTELBOLOGNESE ITALIAN, 16TH CENTURY Rectangular enrichment of a book binding occupied by an allegorical composition of victory surrounded by trophies. Background of archi-tecture. Size, 21/4 x 23/4 juches Attribution by Molinier. A bronze bas-relief by this master in « La Collection Spitzer », Paris, 1894, vol. 4, p. 140, No. 35. From the Spitzer legacies. 475 SILVER BAS-RELIEF OF THE RENAISSANCE NUREMBERG, 16TH CENTURY An allegory. The figure of a woman draped in the style of the antique on a richly ornamented dais, and architectural background of a columnar arch and niches with statues. Size, 21/4 x 23/4 juches From the Spitzer legacies. 476 NIELLO SILVERED PLAQUE IN ENAMELLED FRAME, BY THE ENGRAVER H.D., 1545 THE PLAQUE GERMAN, 16TH CENTURY Landsknecht Captains. A group of two figures, one carrying a ban-ner with the arms of a holy Roman Empire; the other a helmet. The picture surrounded by Renaissance volutes. Framed in gilded mold-ing with plaques of lapis-blue enamel. Size of plaque, 7 x 51/2 inches From the Spitzer legacies. 209
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