In the latter part of the seventeenth century, the cabinet was found in every home of moderate wealth. In an inventory of 1679, “a root-wood cabinet, with Japanese small dishes and ‘colossol’ (very large) pots under its high feet” is mentioned. These cabinets stood on high legs, sometimes with only one drawer underneath. They were frequently made of rough pinewood painted red; but often they were very handsome (_see_ Plate XXXI). In the bedroom of Lady Reepmaker in the Castle of Develstein there was a “cabinet-maker’s small cupboard to put dresses in, one one-drawer cabinet on a high base, one hair-dressing table, one ditto chair, one ditto mirror with ebony frame, one gold leather comb-holder, and the ‘_nachtbouquet_’” (night bouquet), a piece of furniture used by the upper classes after 1672, in which everything relating to the toilet of the period was found, such as: a silver framed mirror, powder boxes, silver trays, pin-books, patch-boxes, hair and clothes brushes, and other small toilet articles, as well as silver candlesticks, snuffers and snuffer-trays. When a wealthy lady sat in front of her “dressing-cloth,” as her dressing-table was familiarly called, she had before her an array of bottles and boxes containing perfumes, powders, paints and beauty patches, as well as a treasure-house of pearls, diamonds, rings and bracelets set with glittering stones, ear-rings, necklaces, chains of pearls, gold and silver pins, spangles, half-moons, so that she looked like “a sun surrounded by suns,” or a “diamond surrounded by rubies.” [Illustration: PLATE XLIII.—_Kas of Ebony and Ivory._ RIJKS MUSEUM, AMSTERDAM. ] Her innumerable toilet-boxes of tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl, her silver and gold scent-boxes, her boxes of filigree, her ivory, ebony and porcelain boxes and trays for her patches and cosmetics, her rich jewel cases of gold, silver, tortoiseshell or ivory, lined with velvet, her brushes and her shoe-horns, and her beautiful work-boxes supplied with thimbles, bodkins, knitting-needles, hooks, scissors, and everything that could be used for sewing and fancy needlework are displayed on her toilet-table and in her cabinets. The table-cover or “carpet” was a most important decorative feature of the Dutch room. It was generally a handsome Oriental rug. This was thrown over the dining-table, the ordinary table in the hall or kitchen (_see_ Plate XXVII and Plate XXXVI), in the bedroom (_see_ Plate XXVI and Plate XXXVII), and used also for the toilet-table (_see_ Plate XL). Often it was ornamented with handsome fringe (_see_ Plate XXVI and Plate XXVII). When an impromptu meal was served, it was the custom to cover the handsome cloth with a white cloth, of which the Dutch housewife always had a large supply (_see_ Plate XXXVI and Plate XLII). Four exceptionally handsome table “carpets” appear in Plate XL, Plate XXXIX, Plate XXVI and Plate XXXVII.