Dutch, The, 203–4; —— Art, Decadence of, 301; —— artisans in London, 284; —— artists, 165, 166; —— beds, 312; —— carving, 301–2; —— collectors, 325–7; —— country houses, 315–6; —— in the East, 215–6, 237–8; —— farmhouses,313–5; —— furniture, 255, 317–8; —— homes and houses, 177–98, 188–91, 197–8, 311–2, 316–7; —— love of home, 172–3, 182–3; —— love of marquetry, 160; —— love of porcelain, 238–9; —— love of symmetry, 324–5; —— luxury, 249, 255–6, 302–3; —— mania for cleaning, 183–7, 194–5, 324; —— and English marriages, 279–80; —— navigators, 214–6; —— ships, 215, 226; —— taste, 204, 279, 280, 282, 284–5, 287 Duysbourg, H. van, 51 Ear, as decorative motive, 166. _See_ Auricular style Earl of Pembroke, 57; —— of Warwick, 57 East India Company, 270; —— of England, 237, 284, 290 East, trade with the, 64 _Ébéniste_, 159 Ebn’ Abd el Noûr el Hamîri et Toûnsi, 23 Ebony, 7, 115, 268 Ecclesiastical Art, 1–6, 7; —— hangings, 18–9 Edrisi, 205 Eeckhout, G. van der, 166 Eenhoorn, L., 221 Egmont, Counts of, 100 Elizabeth, Queen, 117, 125, 214; —— Queen of Bohemia, 279 Embroiderers, 56 Embroideries, 17, 56, 69, 70, 71 Empire Style, The, 310 _Encoinçons_, 93, 104 Engravers, 165 England and Holland, relations of, 241 English workmen, complaints of, 288; —— and Dutch pirates, 238 Entrecolles, Father d’, quoted, 223–5 _Escarbeau_, 16, 47, 266 _Escritorios de la Chine_, 211 Esquiros, Alphonse, quoted, 312–3, 322–4 Este, C., quoted, 306–9 Etiquette, 14, 33, 46–7, 98 European patterns sent to the East, 223–5, 287, 288, 290, 296–7 Evelyn, 249, 282, 284 Eycken, John van der, 62 _Faerie Queen, The_, quoted, 21 Faïence, 91, 206, 301 Faldstools, 7, 16 Falkema, J. S., 166 Faydherbe, L., 136 Feast of the Pheasant, 33–4 Feltham, Owen, 183, 185, 264 Ferdinand of Aragon, 79 Ferrara, 59 _Fête de l’oiseau_, 303–4 Fictoor, Lowys, 221 Fire-basket, 199 Fireplace, 62 Flanders, 79, 203 Flemings, artistic character of the, 84–5 Flemish artisans, 306; —— artisans abroad, 52, 58–9, 74–5, 85, 117–8, 155, 156, 304; —— carvers, 50–3; —— glass-workers, 26–7; —— teachers, 24; —— looms, 58, 71, 74, 76–7, 304–5 “Flemish Raphael,” The, 88 Floreins, John, 52 Florence, 28 Floris, Cornelius, 102; ——, Francis, 88; ——, James, 102; —— Style, the, 102–3 Flowers, 200, 201 Folding-beds, 111; —— tables, 112 Fontainebleau, 74; —— School of, 92 Foot-stove, 263–4 Forbin, Count de, quoted, 249 Forms, 7 Fouquet, 154 Francis I., 74, 97 François de la Planche, 155 Francouart, 94 Franquart, Jacques, 137 French influence in Low Countries, 299–300 Friar Hugo, 25 Friesland, 318 Frytom, F. van, 221 Furnes, St. Walburge, 139 Furnishing, house, 255 Furnishings of Banquet Hall, 40–3