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was made at Ausburg in 1020 from a drawing of the celebrated Painter Ilearick Goltzius; there is also a ' ♦ small altar in Ivory representing the dead body of our Saviour resting upon his mother’s lap. Diana in Ivory on a pedestal of Lapis-lazoli sur rounded by allegorical figures by Mr. L. Spongier. The figure of the Emperor Leopold on horseback worked in Iron in 1009 by Leygebcn of Nuremberg; the Equestrian statues of Frederick the fourth in Ivory, and Charles the first of England in bronze are deserving of note. t The Statue of King Frederick the fourth on horseback; this equestrian statue is of silver erected on a pedestal, urouiul which are the arms of the different stales of Den mark, and underneath is a small drawer of tortoise shell; it was presented to His Majesty on his birth-day by his Royal Consort Queen Louisa in 1701. Two groups of Gipsies each consisting of a Man, woman, and ch ild , carved in Ivory; their ragged dresses arc formed of brown wood, and their eyes arc of enamel. ' , The figure of time in Ivory elevating truth, and treading under foot falsehood, is finely executed. An Equestrian Statue of Frederick the third whicl^ IHOves by mechanism; two paintings on China, represen ting fruit and flowers finely executed by J. L. Jensen.
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