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In the room above the bath
[…] Two elephant teeth … that were sitting on the clothes rack of the room and were overlooked by me | f. — |
The chamber of the two beds
In the cassone [chest] | |
[…] A beautiful carpet … | f.4 … |
A chess set and chess board all of walnut, inlaid with ivory and decorated throughout with ivory and carved. | f.1 […] |
Continuing in the same chamber
[…] A panel painting depicting a perspective scene, that is, the palazzo de’ Signori and the loggia and the houses around looking the way they are [Brunelleschi?] | f. — |
In the passageway at the top of the stairs which leads to the chapel
… A panel showing the Nativity of Our Lord [by Gozzoli] with the Magi on horseback arriving to make their offerings … | f. — |
In the large bedchamber … called the bedchamber of Lorenzo
[…] An ostrich egg and a mirrored ball with a silken cord | f.1 |
[…] In the first clothes chest | |
[…] A turca [Turkinsh‐style gown] of Moroccan cloth lined in ermine | f.40 […] |
Continuing into the antechamber of the same suite
A little panel painting, depicting Our Lord dead, with many saints who are carrying him to the sepulchre, by Fra Giovanni [Fra Angelico] | f.15 |
A marble panel by Donato [Donatello] depicting Our Lady holding her child | f.6 |
A gilt bronze panel depicting Our Lady with the child in her arms, completely framed, by Donato | f.25 |
A panel painting with a gilt frame depicting Saint Jerome and Saint Francis, by Pesello and Fra Filippo [Filippo Lippi] | f.10 |
A little panel painting, depicting Our Lord crucified with three figures by Giotto | f.6 |
A marble panel with many figures in relief and other things in perspective, that is, of St John, by Donato | f.30 |
A tondo with Our Lady, small, by Fra Giovanni | f.5 … |
A lunette … depicting the universe [Last Judgement] | f.50 […] |
Continuing into the study
[…] A bowl of sardonyx, chalcedony, and agate, within which are several figures and on the outside a head of Medusa [the Tazza Farnese] | f.10,000 |
A unicorn horn … rough estimate | f.6,000 |
Cameos | |
A cameo framed in gold, with four figures and the story of Icarus and Daedalus, incised on the reverse with diamonds and an inscription | f.400 |
A cameo framed in gold, depicting three figures leaving a forest, on the reverse incised branches and roses | f.100 |
A cameo framed in gold, depicting women who lead a baby seated on the back of a lion, incised on the reverse with diamonds, feathers and an inscription | f.450 […] |
A green, white and black agate with a female monster reclining with a child in the sea, with an inscription on the reverse | f.25 […] |
A cameo framed in gold, with a centaur in sardonyx on a white background carrying a bowl of fruit on his shoulder, dressed in a lion skin, a thyrsus in his hand and carved on the back with a diamond, feathers and an inscription | f.500 […] |
A large cameo framed in gold, called the Ark, depicting 8 figures, 4 men and 4 women, an angel in the sky, a pair of horses, 2 lions, and many other animals carved on the reverse with foliage | f.2,000 […] |
Continuing in the same study with rings | |
[…] A mother‐of‐pearl shell within which is a nascent pearl less than half‐embedded, estimated at 15 carats … | f.300 |
Another mother of pearl shell within which, in a similar fashion, is a pearl more than half‐formed, estimated at c. 14 carats | f.300 […] |
A thin table‐cut balas ruby framed in a plain gold band | f.500 … |
A perfect turquoise in a gold band | f.200 … |
A conical diamond cut
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