There are many other museum specimens which might be referred to, proving the influence of French design of the seventeenth and subsequent centuries on that of other countries. The above illustration of a Norse interior shews that this influence penetrated as far as Scandinavia; the old-fashioned box-like bedsteads which the Norwegians had retained from early times, and which in a ruder form are still to be found in the cottages of many Scottish counties, especially of those where the Scandinavian connection existed, are characteristic of the country. The design of the chairs in the preceding illustration is an evidence of the innovations which had been made upon native fashions. These chairs are in style thoroughly Dutch, of about the end of the seventeenth, or early in the eighteenth century; the cabriole legs and shell ornaments were probably the direct result of the influence of the French on the Dutch. The woodcut is from a drawing of an old house in Norway. [Illustration: SECRETAIRE. In King and Tulip Wood, with Sêvres Plaques and Ormolu Mountings. PERIOD: EARLY LOUIS XVI.] It would be unfitting to close this chapter on French furniture without paying tribute to the munificence and public spirit of Mr. John Jones, whose bequest to the South Kensington Museum constitutes in itself a representative Museum of this class of decorative furniture. Several of the illustrations in this chapter have been taken from this collection. The money value alone of this collection of furniture, porcelain, bronzes, and _articles de vertû_, mostly of the period embraced within the limits of this chapter, amounts to about £400,000, and exceeds the value of any bequest the nation has ever had. Perhaps the references contained in these few pages, to the French furniture of this time, may stimulate the interest of the public in, and its appreciation of, this valuable national property. [Illustration: CLOCK. By Robin, in Marqueterie Case, with Mountings of Gilt Bronze. (_Jones Collection, South Kensington Museum._) LOUIS XVI. PERIOD.]