surmounted by the figure of a seated quadruped. It is raised and lowered by a pulley and chain. The ewer, or _aiguière_, standing on the credence, is an excellent specimen of _Dinanderie_ of the fifteenth century; it has a double spout, as shown in Fig. 1. Other examples of _Dinanderie_ of this period are represented in Fig. 2, a grotesque _aiguière_; and Fig. 3, a bracket candlestick of very graceful form. _Dinanderie_ became celebrated as early as the thirteenth century. Although made at first in Dinant, its manufacture spread throughout the valley of the Meuse, and _Dinantairs_ were established in various cities and towns in the Netherlands, Germany, England and France. In 1380, one Jehan de Dinant, living at Rheims, furnished some articles to the King. Among the copper and brass ware delivered at this period to the royal household and to the establishments of other great personages by this workman, we find all kinds of kitchen articles, cooking utensils, stoves of all sizes, wash-basins, kettles for heating water for the bath, barbers’ basins, large boilers of all kinds, warming-pans for the beds, candlesticks, chandeliers, and _aiguières_ (ewers). The permanent woodwork of the apartments in Mediaeval days was furniture, without being “movables,” just like the carved oak in the choir of a cathedral. The panelling contained cupboards and wardrobes; bedsteads were contrived in the timbered lining of the walls; and the woodwork readily lent itself to the adaptation of window seats, settles and benches. It may easily be understood how the woodwork of a room might conceal a whole series of shelves to which sliding panels, or panels opening outwards as doors, gave access. These various compartments served as cabinets for curios, bookcases, glass and plate cupboards, wardrobes and larders. When one of these compartments was made as a separate piece of furniture to stand by itself out against the flat wall of a room, it was called a cabinet, or _armoire_. As late as the middle of the seventeenth century, however, the _armoire_ was generally part of the fixed woodwork. _Relai_ was another name for it. Thus in 1635, Monet defines _armoire_, _armaire_, _aumoire_ as a “_reservoir pratique en la muraille à servir et garder tout chose_”; and Cotgrave (1673) has: “_Relai_” as “_armaire_, a hole or box contrived in or against a wall.”