Absalon, at Yarmouth, china
decorator, 368
Addison quoted, on political
use of fan by ladies, 165;
(Sir Roger de Coverley)
on tobacco stoppers, 102
Advertisement, the modern
pictorial, and its use of
silhouette, 317
Agricultural implements, old,
conservation of in Sweden
and Denmark, III
Agriculture, the potter's tri-
bute to, 112
Alphabet, brass (1725), for
use in infants' school, 270
Amulets and charms against
Evil Eye, 138
Amulets, brass, on horse har-
ness, 135-148
Apothecaries' jars, 361
Ashmolean Museum, pair of
bellows used by Charles II
at, 107
Babylonian symbols, present
in modern horse harness
amulets, 148
Basket-work (Japanese), 427
Bellows, 106; rich carving
found in old Italian and
French examples, see Fron-
tispiece
Bewick, Thomas, his technique
applied to silhouette, 314;
his woodcuts in children's
books, 274
Bible Box, the Protestant,
68
Bible, the, Tyndale's boast
as to his translation, 68;
various editions of, showing
misprints, 71
Black porcelain, 411; black
wall-papers an echo of
Chinese taste," 411
Blinker, horse - ornament, its
true derivation, 136
Block, Joanna Koerten, Dutch
"scissor and paper artist"
(1650-1715), 310
Bobbins, lace (Buckingham-
shire), 132; foreign varie-
ties, 135
Bow factory, porcelain ink-
pots made at, 371
Boxes and their variety, 35
Bribing a printer to corrupt
texts in the Bible, 70
Britannia and the submarines,
German comic cartoon of,
447
Buckingham, Duke of, letter
from Charles I to, 67
Buckinghamshire lace bobbins,
132
Buddhism, its wide-reaching
influence, 144
Buddhist signs of happy
augury, 137, 418; (illus-
trated), 419
Burgautée, laque, 412
Burns, Robert, silhouette por-
trait of, 301
Burns, Robert," Willie brew'd
a peck of Maut," on a
Staffordshire Loving Cup,
386
Caddy-spoons, 336
Cadogan tea-pot (Rockingham
factory), 345
Calabash, the, its form adopted
by the potter, 402
Caldecott, Randolph, his
Nursery Books," 274
Cards, Playing, and their
varieties, 180-195
Caricatures, political, (on fans),
165; on playing cards, 191
Carlyle, Thomas, as a boy,
and the beggar, 253
V Casket Letters of Mary
Queen of Scots, 56
Casket, the, and its types, 52
Character shown in a man's
hobbies, 21, 22
Charles I drives the French
household of Queen Henri-
etta Maria from London, 63
Charles I, medallion of, on a
tobacco stopper, 101
Charles I, portrait of, by
Vandyck, showing ear-ring,
234
Charles II, medallion of, on
a tobacco stopper, 100
Charles II, pair of bellows
used by, 107
Charms, protective, in use
from early days, 139
Chelsea porcelain, its deriva-
tive character, 361
Chests, various, and their
developments, 37
Childhood, literature of, 245
Children, employment of, in
factories, 380
Children, figures of, on the
china shelf, 277
Children, games of, 263-269
Children, their environment
and their pastimes, 243-
282
Children, toys of, 254-262
Children's books and their
collection, 274
Chimney sweepers, employ-
ment of young children, 380
Chinese ginger jars of com-
merce, 394-398
Chinese metal-work, 418
Chinese playing cards, 183
Chinese poet, Sin Tun p'o
(eleventh century), quoted,
Chippendale, school of carvers,
219, 220
Chippendale, Thomas, his "tea-
chests" (1764), 323
Clare, John, the Northamp-
tonshire poet, quoted, 119
Cockade, its use as a mark of
distinction, 136
Coffer, the, and its varia-
tions, 45
Coffres de voyage, or travelling
trunks, 63
Collecting, a science, not an
Collecting, ethics of (Intro-
ductory Note), 21
Collecting, no new thing in
England, 32
Collecting not measured by
cash values, 23
Decadent school of artists and
litterateurs, English, nine-
teenth century, 178
Defoe, Daniel, tilemaker of
Tilbury Fort, 358
Desk, the, its affinity to the
Bible box, 75
Diabolo, the, a French eigh-
teenth-century toy, rein-
troduced in England in
nineteenth century, 256
Doll's houses, 258-262
Door knockers, artistic, 433
Dragon, the, its derivation
and use in ornament, 421
Drawing and withdrawing
rooms in great houses, 199
Druggists' jars, 361
Anne period doll's house,
262
Eighteenth century-the Town
dominates literature, 127
Elizabeth, Queen, and the
English Bible, 73
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia,
portrait of, showing ear-
ring, 237
English humour, in pottery,
often incongruous, 339
Engravers employed by potters,
381
Engravers, names of, employed
at Liverpool factory, 361
Engravers of Liverpool tile
subjects mainly derivative,
358
Evil Eye, the, amulets and
charms against, 138
Evil Eye, the, belief in wide
extended, 144, 147
Evil Eye, the, symbols con-
nected with, 137
Fan mounts, drawings by
Charles Conder, 178
Fans and their varieties, 157-
180
Fantan, Chinese game of cards,
183
Farmhouses, old, conservation
of, in Denmark and Sweden,
III
Fashionable ladies at rustic
occupations, 127
Fifteenth century playing
cards, 183
Fire, Man and, utensils used
in procuring fire, 77-107
Fire screens by Chippendale,
Hepplewhite, and Sheraton,
Flail, the, and its use, 116
Fleet Street and Dr. Johnson
dominate England, 127
French playing cards and their
designations, 181
French Protestant work (style
réfugié) in England, 220
Furniture, mechanical devices
in (Sheraton period), 224
Game Laws, the English, a
blot on the statute book,
128
Games, children's, antiquity
of, 265
Gammadion (or Svastika), evo-
lution of the, 143, 419
(illustrated), 140
Gautier, Theophile, his ro-
mance on the Evil Eye, 147
Geometric designs as magic
symbols, 138, 139
German war cartoons, their
historic value, 443
Ginger jar of commerce, the
Chinese, 394-398
Gravelot, his series of eigh-
teenth-century French
games, 266
Green, Guy (Liverpool), pio-
neer of transfer-printing,
357
Hancock, Robert, engraver of
transfer prints for Worces-
ter porcelain, 381
Hanway, Jonas, popularized
the umbrella in England,
159
Hawthorn jars, Chinese, their
significance, 418
Henry VIII, his prohibition
of reading the Bible, 73
Hepplewhite tea-caddies and
tea-chests (1794), 324
Hindu mythology, horse-har-
ness amulets, symbols re-
lated to, 137
Hindustanee playing cards,
157, 182
Hispano-Moresque lustre ware,
408
Hispano-Moresque ornamenton
horse-harness amulets, 143
Hispano-Moresque tiles, 143
Hobbies, character shown in
a man's, 21, 22
Horn Book, History of the
(Tuer's), 270
Horse harness, brass amulets
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