Dutch and Flemish Furniture

Lacquer—Oriental Methods—European Importations and Limitations—Prices— An Ambassador’s Report—_Singerie_, _Chinoiserie_ and _Rocaille_— The Dutch Decadence—Interiors of Cornelis...

Renewed Italian Influence—Rubens: his Studio, his House, his Pupils, his Influence, his Successors—Seventeenth Century Woodcarvers— Developments and Tendencies of Furniture—Cris...

Love of Porcelain—The Amsterdam Mart—Prices of China in 1615—Oriental Wares before 1520—Luxury of the Dutch Colonists—Rich Burghers in New Amsterdam—Inventories of Margarita van...

Famous Dutch Architects—The Royal Palace on the Dam, Het Loo, the Mauritshuis and Huis ten Bosch—Interior Carvings—Specimens of Rooms and Ceilings in the Rijks Museum—Love of th...

Rise of Dutch Taste in Decorative Art—Influence of Foreign Trade in the Dutch Home—Accounts of Porcelain by Mediaeval Travellers: Edrisi, Ibn Batuta and Shah Rukh; Quotation fro...

Second Period of the Renaissance—Court of Mary of Hungary—Charles V a Fleming—Influence of Burgundian Court in Spain—Gilded Leather— Wealth of the Nobles in the Netherlands—Marg...

The luxurious Dukes of Burgundy—Possessions of the House of Burgundy— The Burgundian Court—Household of Philip the Good—the Feast of the Pheasant—the Duke of Burgundy at the Cor...

Dawn of the Renaissance—The Transitional Period—Coffers and Bahuts— Court of Margaret of Austria—Perréal’s Style—Margaret’s Tomb by Perréal—Taste of the Regent—Margaret’s Tapest...

The Dutch Craftsmen in the Employ of Louis XIV—Huguenot Emigration— Marot—The Sopha—Upholstery—The Bed—Chairs—Sconces—Tables—Rooms— English and Dutch Alliances—Hampton Court—Que...

Ecclesiastical Art—Wood-carving and Carvers—Primitive character of the Furniture of Castles and Mansions—_Huchiers_—_Menuisiers_—A Typical Bedroom—_Dinanderie_—Wood-work and pan...

Coeck was painter to Charles V, and to his sister, Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary (born in Brussels in 1503), to whom Charles V gave the government of the Low Countries. In h...

Agnes Sorel owned a superb specimen at her _Château de Beauté_ in 1350. It is described as “a large piece of Arras, on which are pictured the deeds and battles of Judas Maccabae...

Lacquer—Oriental Methods—European Importations and Limitations—Prices—An Ambassador’s Report—_Singerie_, _Chinoiserie_ and _Rocaille_—The Dutch Decadence—Interiors of Cornelis T...

Dawn of the Renaissance—The Transitional Period—Coffers and _Bahuts_—Court of Margaret of Austria—Perrèal’s Style— Margaret’s Tomb by Perrèal—Taste of the Regent—Margaret’s Tape...

Famous Dutch Architects—The Royal Palace on the Dam, Het Loo, The Mauritshuis and Huis Ten Bosch—Interior Carvings— Specimens of Rooms and Ceilings in the Rijks Museum—Love of t...

The luxurious Dukes of Burgundy—Possessions of the House of Burgundy—The Burgundian Court—Household of Philip the Good—the Feast of the Pheasant—the Duke of Burgundy at the Coro...

Rise of Dutch Taste in Decorative Art—Influence of Foreign Trade in the Dutch Home—Accounts of Porcelain by Mediaeval Travellers: Edrisi, Ibn Batuta and Shah Rukh—Quotation from...

Second Period of the Renaissance—Court of Mary of Hungary— Charles V a Fleming—Influence of Burgundian Court in Spain—Gilded Leather—Wealth of the Nobles in the Netherlands—Marg...

Love of porcelain—The Amsterdam Mart—Prices of China in 1615—Oriental wares before 1520—Luxury of the Dutch Colonists—Rich Burghers in New Amsterdam—Inventories of Margarita van...

The Dutch Craftsmen in the Employ of Louis XIV—Huguenot Emigration—Marot—The Sopha—Upholstery—The Bed—Chairs— Sconces—Tables—Rooms—English and Dutch Alliances—Hampton Court—Quee...

Ecclesiastical Art—Wood-carving and Carvers—Primitive Character of the Furniture of Castles and Mansions— _Huchiers_—_Menuisiers_—A Typical Bedroom—_Dinanderie_— Wood-work and p...

Renewed Italian Influence—Rubens: his Studio, his House, his Pupils, his Influence, his Successors—Seventeenth Century Wood-carvers—Development and Tendencies of Furniture—Crisp...