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198 198 rKOCEEDIXGS AT MEETINGS. The ancestors of Sir John were in possession of an old mansion at Andover, known as " the Priory," where James II. passed a night on his retreat from Salisbury ; the bed in which the king slept was preserved until recent years. By Mr. Rohde Hawkins. — Three enamelled portraits, of French art, but dissimilar to the ordinary style of Limoges work of the period, the latter part of XVIth. cent. They represent Mary, Queen of England, James V. of Scotland, and Darnley ; the latter wearing the order of St. Michael. The back-ground of these portraits is of a brilliant blue enamel ; the features are well characterised. — Also, a beautiful pomander, or perfume- box, of silver gilt, elaborately engraved with ornament of great elegance. It has a ring affixed to the top, probably for suspension to the girdle ; and on unscrewing that part, the globe falls open, being formed in six segments, around a central tube, like the core of a fruit, each of them being a separate receptacle for perfume, and closed by a sliding lid. This beautiful ornament, of the sixteenth century, is the propei-ty of Miss Weeks. A pomander of similar fashion, and of rather earlier date, partly enamelled, is in the posses- sion of Miss Leycester, and was exhibited in the Museum formed by the Institute at Norwich. By Mk. Robert Goff. — A casket, mounted with chased metal, set with a series of medallions of the kings of France, in pietra dura ; decorated with enamelled plaques, by Jean Laudin of Limoges, representing St. Mary Magdalen and St. Jerome upon the cover ; and on the sides, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, Gregory the Great, and St. Martin. Date, late XVI cent. A statuette of good German workmanship, of gilt metal, probably repre- senting the Emperor Maximilian, but placed on a silver-gilt pedestal of English work, evidently of very recent date, and inscribed with the name of Edward III. By Mr. Webb. — A tablet of tabernacle work, of gilt metal, containing a figure of the Virgin and Child, probably of German fabrication, about 1480. — An ewer of decorative ware, probably an imitation of the " fayence Henri 11.,"^ but with ornaments in relief, glazed in colours, and in some degree analogous to the mode of decoration used by Palissy. It is a curious example of mixed or transitional French fabrication. — A beautiful little priming flask, or touch-box, (from the Debruges collection) of marqueterie work, the wood inlaid with ivory, metal, and filigree work ; XVIth cent. Compare flasks of this form in the Goodrich Court Armory, Skelton's Illustr., Vol. ii., pi. 125. annual ILontion /^fleeting. May IOtii, 18o0. The Annual London Meeting, for receiving the Auditors' Report, was held on this day, at the Apartments of the Institute, Octavius Morgan, Esq., M.P., in the Chair. The Auditors submitted their Report, which, having been unanimously adopted, was ordered to be printed, in accordance with prescribed usage, and is here annexed. ' See representations of several exquisite examples of this ware, infra, p. 211.