Show PRIZE FOR ART LOVERS magnificent cross disposed of at recent sale in germany writing of the sale of the thewalt collection of art treasures at cologne iser jermany many the coi respondent of the new york sun says 1 I shall begin with the great prizes of f the sale first the silver gilt cross N ith twenty niello plates nine on the front and eleven on the tile back a mag 1111 fi cent specimen of florentine re nals sance work for this herr thewalt if it is reported had an offer of marks from the late baron adolpho de rothschild who was a incent donor to the louvre muse 4 1 V T I 1 luc niello mello crow maht W je inches 13 lacem im lim and likewise an offer of marks for the limoges goblet the shaft of the cross is sixteen and a half inches long and the crosspiece thirteen and behalf a half inches in the middle ot of the tile front is a panel with the tile fig ire oi 0 the crucified christ at the ends 01 the crosspiece panels in niello representing the downing clowning 0 with thorns and the flagellation a and nd at the top and bottom a last sapper and a pieta pleta there are four rectangular niello panels bet veen those these representing saints and the pelican on the back the panels represent weeping angels the vir r pin rin in mary magdalen st john the sermon on the mount with other reinor figures I 1 discovered on one or oi the medallions on the top the letters E B mt ut of course nobody can tell who the aigist may have been |