Cabinet, Jacobean oak, with drawer and folding doors below, with moulded rectangular panels and balusters in relief, 50 in. high, 46 in. wide. Christie, July 1, 1904 35 14 0 [1] By the kindness of the proprietors of the _Connoisseur_ these items are given from their useful monthly publication, _Auction Sale Prices_. [Illustration: CRADLE, TIME OF CHARLES I. CARVED OAK; WITH LETTERS G. B. M. B. DATED 1641. (_Victoria and Albert Museum._)] IV STUART OR JACOBEAN. LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY [Illustration: (_After picture by Caspar Netscher_) INTERIOR OF DUTCH HOUSE. LATTER HALF OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.] IV STUART OR JACOBEAN. LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Charles II. 1660-1685. James II. 1685-1688. William and Mary. 1689-1694. William 1694-1702. Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723). Grinling Gibbons (1648-1726). 1660. Bombay became a British possession. Importation of Indo-Portuguese furniture. 1666. Great Fire in London. Much valuable furniture destroyed. 1675-1710. St. Paul's Cathedral built under Wren's direction. 1685. Edict of Nantes revoked. Spitalfields' silk industry founded by French refugees. [Illustration: _By permission of the proprietors of the "Connoisseur."_ CABINET OF THE TIME OF CHARLES II. With exterior finely decorated with needlework.] After the Civil War, when Charles II. came into his own again, the furniture of the Restoration period most certainly took its colour from the gay Court with which the Merry Monarch surrounded himself. The cabinet which we reproduce has the royal arms embroidered on the cover, and is a beautiful example of intricate cabinetmaking. The surface of the piece is entirely covered with needlework. On the front stand a cavalier and lady, hand-in-hand. On the side panel a cavalier is leading a lady on horseback. On the back a man drives a laden camel, and on another panel is shown the traveller being received by an old man in the grounds of the same castle which appears all through the scenes. This suggests the love-story of some cavalier and his lady. The casket is worthy to have held the love-letters of the Chevalier Grammont to La Belle Hamilton. [Illustration: _By permission of the proprietors of the "Connoisseur."_ CABINET OF THE TIME OF CHARLES II. Showing interior and nest of drawers.] As is usual in pieces of this nature, the cabinet contains many artfully devised hiding places. A tiny spring behind the lock reveals one secret drawer, and another is hidden beneath the inkwell. There are in all five of such secret compartments--or rather five of them have been at present discovered--there may be more. The illustration of the cabinet open shows what a nest of drawers it holds.