VI.

Table Bells - Carved Wood Watch-Stands The

Work Table-Silver Pomanders-Stuart Needlework-

Ear-rings

CHILDREN: THEIR ENVIRONMENT AND THEIR

PASTIMES

Cradles Toys-Games-Children's Illustrated Books

-Children on the China Shelf

PAGE

. 197

243

The Profile Painter-Eighteenth-Century Artists in

England - The Potter and the Silhouette-"Scissor-

graphists' - The Last Days of the Silhouettists -

Modern Developments of the Technique

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VIII. THE TEA-TABLE AND ITS ACCESSORIES

IX.

X.

-

Tea Caddies Tea - Poys Tea-Strainers Caddy.

Spoons-Some Curious Tea-pots-Papier Maché Tea-

Trays

SIDELIGHTS IN POTTERY

Liverpool Tiles-Druggists' Jars-A Lowestoft Inkpot

-Old Rouen Salt Cellars-Staffordshire Transfer-print-

ing-A Staffordshire Loving Cup-Irish Political Plates

-Puzzle Jugs-The Chinese Ginger Jar of Commerce—

Wedgwood Tobacco Pipe Heads-The Calabash and

the Potter-Spanish Lustre Ware-Black Porcelain

MISCELLANEOUS

· 351

Chinese Metal-Work-Japanese Basket Work-Seven-

teenth-Century Keys-Artistic Door Knockers-Echoes

of the Napoleonic Wars-German War Cartoons-War

Relics

415

Casket, ornamented with Leather (French), XVIIth century. 57

Cassette (French), XVIIth century

57

Steel Casket, engraved (French), XVIth century

Steel Coffers (Flemish), XVIIIth century

61

Travelling Trunk (English), XVIIth century

Bible Boxes (English), XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries

. 65

. 65

CHAPTER II.-MAN AND FIRE.

Old Snuffers (English), XVIIIth century

81

Snuffers and Tray, Sheffield plate

Tinder Box (English), XVIIIth century

Tobacco Graters

Pistol Tinder Boxes and Strike-a-Light (Thibetan)

Tobacco Boxes (Dutch)

81

. 89

. 89

· 93

. 97

. 103

. 103

Tobacco Stoppers (metal), XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. 97

Tobacco Boxes (English), XIXth century

Tobacco Stoppers (wood), XVIIIth century

Threshing Corn with Flails (co. Antrim), Ireland
Winnowing Corn (Mourne Mountains), Ireland
Wooden Plough (Mourne Mountains), Ireland
Spinning and Winding Yarn (co. Antrim), Ireland
The Haymaker (old print)

CHAPTER III.-THE LAND.

PAGE

Silver Lustre Jug (Staffordshire)

. 113

Swansea Plate, with Black Transfer-printed Subject

Peasants going to Work at Sunrise (old print)

Man Trap

Buckinghamshire Lace Bobbins

Sun Disc and Horse on Carriage

Hispano-Moresque Tiles

Old Brass Horse Amulets

Dutch Woman at Spinning-wheel (old print) ́

Irish Spinning-wheel

CHAPTER IV.-OLD FANS AND PLAYING CARDS.

Eighteenth-century Fan (Italian)

Portrait of Hon. Mrs. Graham. (After Gainsborough)

English Fan, with Steel Guards, XIXth century

Lady with Fan (English), XIXth century (old print) .

Figure Subject. The Fan in Church (English), XIXth century 175

Indian Circular Playing Cards

. 185

Playing Cards (French), Late XVth century

Playing Cards (English), XVIIth century

. 189

CHAPTER V.-THE BOUDoir.

Table Bells (Modern).

Table Bell (Russian). Miniature of Great Bell of Moscow
Carved Wood Watch-stands, XVIIIth century

Portrait of Charles I. (After Vandyck)

Portrait of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia

Portrait of Mrs. Wingfield, Mid-XIXth century

Portrait of a Lady, Mid-XIXth century

CHAPTER VI.-CHILDREN: THEIR ENVIRONMENT AND their

Liverpool Tiles. Blowing Bubbles, Playing, and Shuttlecock 271

Liverpool Tile, Blind Man's Buff

Alphabet Brass, "St. Paul's Infant School, 1725"

Needlework Sampler dated 1666

Danish Peasant Children (Royal Copenhagen Porcelain)

CHAPTER VII.-SILHOUETTES.

Portrait of George III by Hamlet

Portraits of George III, Pitt, and Fox by Rosenberg

Portrait of George III by Hamlet

Portrait of Prince Regent by Rosenberg

295

Portrait by Rosenberg; Portrait of Cornet, 17th Lancers, by

Meirs

Portrait of Lady by Mrs. Beetham

Military Portraits by Rowlandson, and by Meirs and Field

Portrait of Admiral by Lee, of Portsmouth

Portrait of American Soldier by W. Phelps, 1790

Portrait of Nelson

Vases with Silhouette Portraits (Royal Copenhagen Porce

lain)

CHAPTER VIII.--THE TEA-TABLE AND ITS ACCESSORIES.

Tea-Caddy (English), Late XVIIIth century

Silver Caddy-Spoons

Tea Poys, English and Danish, XVIIIth century

Tea-Strainers (English), XVIIIth century

Japanese Tea-pot and Cadogan Tea-pot, XVIIIth century

Salt-glazed Tea-pot (Staffordshire), XVIIIth century.

Japanese Tea-pot. Man with a Sack.

Tea-Tray, papier maché (Chinese), Late XVIIIth century

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303

• 307

• 307

311

315

CHAPTER IX.-SIDELIGHTS IN POTTERY.

PAGE

Liverpool Tiles, signed J. Sadler

355

Liverpool Tiles, "Sailor's Farewell" and "Turkish Captain" 359

Italian Druggists' Jars, XVIth century

. 365

Delft Druggists' Jars, XVIIth century

. 369

Lowestoft Inkpot, dated 1779.

· 373

Old Rouen Salt Cellars, Late XVIIth century

Staffordshire Transfer-printing (old print)

Transfer-printed Plate, showing Technique

Staffordshire Loving Cup with Figure of Burns

Staffordshire Cyder Jug with Lampoon of Prince Regent

Irish Political Plates

Puzzle Jugs, Staffordshire, and Leeds Transfer-printed

Chinese Ginger Jars, XIXth century

Wedgwood Tobacco Pipe Heads

Calabash (Egyptian); Gourd Vase (English)

Spanish Lustre Plaque, XIXth century

Japanese Bowl, Black Enamel with Gold Ornament

CHAPTER X.-Miscellaneous.

Chinese Metal Clasps and Mandarin Buttons .

Old Japanese Basket

Door Knocker (French), XVIth century

Seventeenth-century Keys

Wedgwood Plaque: France and England Joining Hands

Wedgwood Game-Pie Dish

Staffordshire Peace Mug, 1814

Staffordshire Jug with Widow and Orphans

Gothic Gargoyle, Nôtre Dame, Paris

German Pre-war Cartoon (1910)

German War Cartoon (1915): Britannia and the Submarines 449