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House & Garden 
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/\LL the littie touches that lend finesse 
ii to the small home function are fur¬ 
nished by Louis Sherry at moderate charges. 
When next you entertain chez vans obtain 
an estimate from Sherry’s. 
Butlers, Cooks, Special Dishes, 
Part or Entire Menu, Table Favors. 
5th Avenue at 58th Street, New York 
Charles Richard Wilson, Manager 
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(3eriG-Ai.-Qivien.TAL rugs 
The Bengal-Oriental Rug 
ii incomparable as a faithful reproduction of 
the Oriental. There is no other floor cover¬ 
ing made that possesses the characteristics of 
the hand made rug to such a marked degree. 
Color plates and nearest dealer's 
name sent upon request. 
JAMES M. SHOEMAKER CO., Inc. 
16-18 West 3Uth St. at Fifth Ave , New York 
Dark blue background. Many shades of French blue, old rose, 
light rose, sage green, gold and taupe have been used in the design. 
A famous cabi¬ 
net is this ISth 
Century English 
design inset with 
Wedgwood Jas¬ 
per ware medal¬ 
lions 
The Princely Cabinet 
(Continued from page 23) 
cabinets were fitted with drawers and 
closed with doors. Jewelry, gems and 
money were treasured in these recep¬ 
tacles. One of these box-like cabinets 
was sent from Italy to Francis I. It 
had a covering of gilt leather finely 
tooled a la moresque. With the de¬ 
velopment of the cabinet proper, these 
small box-cabinets still held their place 
along with the newer forms for many 
years. Finally they were discontinued 
as the large cabinets became more and 
more in demand, more and more 
sumptuous. 
German and Flemish Work 
In the north countries the cabinet 
still held to the cupboardy appearance 
and became more and more monu¬ 
mental, never achieving the grace of 
the Italian pieces from Florence and 
the south. There was, likewise, a 
“gloomier” note in the cabinets pro¬ 
duced in the northern cities of Italy. 
It was these northern cities which in¬ 
spired the Southern German cabinets, 
but the Germans clung to their domes¬ 
tic Gothic qualities so that their cabinets 
were a mixture of elements. Flanders 
and Burgundy soon came to produce 
marvelously wrought cabinets and Ant¬ 
werp found herself renowned for her 
cabinet-makers. 
Naturally, by reason of political af¬ 
finities, Spanish cabinet design was in¬ 
fluenced by Flemish craftsmen. Indeed 
the fame of the Flemish cabinet-makers 
led Henry IV of France to send French 
workmen into the Low Countries to 
study the art. Jean Mace and Pierre 
Boulle were two of them. The Flemish 
designers and craftsmen of the best 
period produced many pieces having 
doors with painted panels. 
French Patronage 
Louis XIII encouraged the importa¬ 
tion of Italian cabinets, and both this 
king and the Queen-Mother, Marie de 
Medici, had Florentine cabinet-makers 
working in France. In an inventory of 
the effects of Cardinal Mazarin we read 
of an ebony cabinet with molding on 
the sides, unornamented outside, the 
front divided into three arcades, six 
niches, in four of which were tiny fig¬ 
ures bearing silver bouquets. The doors 
were ornamented with eight lapis-lazuli 
columns, silver columns, and the rest 
of the cabinet ornamented with cor¬ 
nelians, agates and jaspers set in silver. 
Over the arcades jasper masks and 
twelve jasper “roses” were set “mixed 
with six oval cornalines”. The rest of 
the cabinet was “ornamented with sil¬ 
ver let into the ebony in cartouche and 
leaf-work". In another of the Cardinal’s 
cabinets Apollo and The Muses were 
represented, while Dominico Cussey 
made one for his patron of the arts of 
ebony inlaid with silver and pietra dura. 
(Continued on page 74) 
Ivory inlaid with mother-of-pearl makes 
this early 1 9th Century Japanese cabinet 
a rare and beautiful example 
