296 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF those exhibited was the Paschal Lamb, Three kinds of character are employed, apparently worked on the metal with a stamp, and repeated several times in the circuit. 2. Dutch or Flemish dishes of brass, fabricated in the beednnins: of the seventeenth century, in imitation, probably, of the last. 3. Italian engraved dishes of brass, of the sixteenth century. 4. A salver and candle- stick of brass, the design of intricate fret-work, of Moorish character, inlaid with silver thread. Procured from Venice. 5. Two large brass cisterns, and two other vessels of Moorish workmanship, with Arabic inscriptions. One of the cisterns is decorated with silver, resembling in workmanship those from Venice, last mentioned, from which city it was likewise brought, and was formerly in the Gradenigo Palace. Another cistern has inscriptions in Arabic, and flowers, with other ornaments, overlaid with silver, and the sunken parts filled in with a black composition, or kind of niello. This vessel is curious from having animals chased on it, a feature of ornament unusual in the works of the Mohammedan nations. By Mk. Rohde Hawkins. — Very fine examples of a similar cistern, a candlestick and a bowl, all of Moorish design and work, the bowl most elaborately inlaid with silver — aU three bearing Arabic inscriptions. At the close of the Meeting, terminating the Session, it was proposed by the Marquis of Northampton, seconded by the Dean of Westminster, and carried unanimously, — " That the cordial thanks of the Archaeological Insti- tute be given to the President and Council of the Institute of Civil Engineers, for the continued and important kindness shown towards our Society ; and for the valuable facilities afl'orded by permission to hold the various meetings of the Institute in this theatre, during four successive years, whilst the Insti- tute, having no suitable place of assembly at their own apartments, have derived very essential advantage from this hospitable liberality on the part of the Civil Engineers, and their friendly encouragement of Archaeological Science." It was announced that the London Meetings would in future be held at the Apartments of the Institute, 2G, Sufiblk Street, Pall-Mall East, (commencing on Friday, November 2.) SEAL OF JOKVERTH AI' MADOC. Uescrileil ante, p. 7:1.
