Locks with sliders and tum-
blers of Chinese origin, 431
London railings, some by.
Louis XIV an amateur lock-
smith, 433
Loving cup, a (Staffordshire),
385
Lowestoft factory, the mystery
attached to, 367-372
Lowestoft inkpot, a, 367
Ludgate Hill, at one time Lon-
don's market of toys, 255
Lustre ware (Spanish), 406–411
Man and Fire-the utensils
used in obtaining light,
77-107
Man and the Land, agricul-
tural implements and by.
gone industries and cus-
toms, 107-154
Mandarin hat buttons, 423
Man-traps and spring-guns,
127, 129, 130, 131
Marriage Chest, the, 37
Mary, Queen of Scots, her
table bell, 203
Migration of symbols, 137
Miniature replicas of furniture
and silver, Dutch furore
for (seventeenth century),
258, 261
Modern Dutch table bells of
fanciful design, 208
Moorish ornament (tilcs, etc.)
on horse-harness amulets,
Needlework, Stuart caskets
decorated in, 59
Nineteenth century (fans), 170,
178 (playing cards), 194,
table bells
(Sonnettes),
French, 207; work tables,
223
Notre Dame (Paris), gargoyle at,
satirized by Germans, 444
Objects of art limited in
number, 30
Old prints, their charm, 31
Oriental fans, 159, 160
Oriental playing cards, 182
Pantin, the, a French eigh-
teenth-century fashionable
toy, 254
Papier maché tea-trays, 346
Parlours, and various quaintly
named rooms in great
houses, 200
Pearwood carved model for
Wedgwood candelabra, 220
Pie dish (Wedgwood) to simu-
late pastry, 439
Playing cards, 180-195
Poachers, a close fraternity
of local lawbreakers, 128
Political lampoons on French
fans, 165
Political satires on playing
cards (English), 191
Pomanders, silver, their various
forms, 227-231
Potter, the, his tribute to
agriculture, 112
Potter, the, his use of the
silhouette, 305
Potter, the, Napoleonic wars
influence on, 438
Potter, the, representation of
children by, 277
Pottery (English), a new field
for humorous design, 343
Pre-historic ornament relating
to sun-worship, 139
Press-gang, the, its drastic
methods, 439
Printers of the Bible, various,
69, 70
Puritan hatred of ornament,
74
Puzzle jugs (Staffordshire),
their antiquity, 390
Queen, the, introduced by
French into playing cards,
182
Refugees, French Protestant,
their work in England, 220
Relics, war and other, their
place in collecting, 448, 452
Rockingham lidless tea-pots,
345
Romeo and Juliet quoted, 362
Rouen faience, salt cellars of,
375
Rustic pictures of fashionable
ladies, 127
Sadler, John (Liverpool), in-
ventor of transfer-printing,
354; signed tile by, 263
Salt cellars, Rouen faience,
375
Salt glaze, tea-pot, 344; tea-
poys, 332
Samplers needlework, 270
Schlimmel, Peter, the shadow-
less man, 309
Scissorgraphists "-artists in
cutting paper, 306
Scots, Mary, Queen of, her
table bell, 203
Scott, Sir Walter, his portrait
by Lawrence, 302
Secret letter locks (seventeenth
century), 431
Seventeenth-century keys, 428;
gracefulness of design of,
432
Seventeenth century (playing
cards), 191
Seville, modern lustre ware
of, replicas of old examples,
4II
Shakespeare and Ben Jonson,
wit combats of, 387
Shakespeare-his description
of an Italian apothecary's
shop, 362
Sheraton period, mechanical
devices in furniture, 224
Sheraton, Thomas, his Draw-
ing Book (1802), 324
Silhouette, Etienne de, Finance
Minister of Louis XV,
290
Silhouettes, 283-317
Silhouettes
Eighteenth-cen-
tury profile painters, 290
Silhouettes-Last days of the
silhouettists, 310
Silhouettes-Potter, the, and
the use of, in decoration,
305
Sixteenth century
smiths, English, great inge-
nuity of, 431
Smith, Sydney, quoted on the
Game Laws, 129
Sofa, or sopha, the, 223
Somerset House, household of
Queen Henrietta Maria at,
63
Spanish lustre ware, 406-411
Spinning wheel, the, and its
evolution, 148-154; Eas-
tern and European exam-
ples, 151-154
Staffordshire earthenware to-
bacco boxes, 100
Table bells, 202
Tea advertisements and their
collection, 322
Tea-caddies and their variety,
323
Tea-caddy spoons, 336
Tea-pot, the first known ex-
ample used in England
(1670), 337
Tea-pots, some curious, 337
Tea-strainers, 332
Tea-table, the, and its acces-
sories, 319-350
Tea-trays, papier maché, 346
Tebo, the ubiquitous modeller,
353
Tinder boxes, 86
Watch-stands, carved wood
(eighteenth century), 208-
employment of
carvers of wood models by
Josiah, 220
Wedgwood game pie dish to
simulate pie crust, 439
Wedgwood, Josiah, transfer-
printing done at Liverpool
for, 358
Wedgwood jug with farmhouse
implements, 115
Wedgwood tobacco pipe heads,
398-402
West, Benjamin, breaks the
shackles of historic paint-
ing, 281
Widows and orphans, dire dis-
tress of, in Napoleonic
wars (Staffordshire jug),
440
Women and children, em-
ployment of, in factories,
380
Work table, lady's, early nine-
teenth-century, 223
Wright, Patience, scissors
artist, eighteenth century,
309
Zeppelin relics, the collection
of, not to be commended,
447
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