Fig. 82 is a somewhat similar glass but of English make. The woods composing it are poplar, pine and oak, and it is decorated with blue and gold lacquer, the effect of which is the reverse of pleasing. We have said that the European lacquer will not bear close comparison with the Old Japanese. The methods of the Chinese were simpler, and the English "japanner" (it is, of course, a misleading term) was more successful in his attempts to copy the Chinese cabinets. His best examples, if indeed they fell far short in technique, did in method to a large-extent approximate to the work of the Celestial. English lacquer as a mere investment is worth buying at reasonable prices, and in choosing pieces the collector will do well to look, as much as possible, for the real Oriental feeling. [Illustration: FIG. 1. MANTELPIECE IN HAMPTON COURT PALACE] [Illustration: FIG. 2. BEDSTEADS AT HAMPTON COURT PALACE] [Illustration: FIG. 3. ROOM IN CLIFFORD'S INN (PERIOD WILLIAM AND MARY)] [Illustration: FIG. 4. CARVING IN PINEWOOD ATTRIBUTED TO GRINLING GIBBON] [Illustration: FIG. 5. TURNED BALUSTERS (LATE SEVENTEENTH AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES)] [Illustration: FIG. 6. DOORWAY (LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY)] [Illustration: FIG. 7. OVERMANTEL (LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY)] [Illustration: FIG. 8. DOORWAY (EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY)] [Illustration: FIG. 9. MANTELPIECE (EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY)] [Illustration: FIG. 10. MIRROR FRAME ATTRIBUTED TO GRINLING GIBBON] [Illustration: FIG. 11. SIMPLE WALL MIRROR (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD) (The property of Mr. F. W. Phillips, The Manor House, Hitchin)] [Illustration: FIG. 12. SIMPLE TOILET MIRROR (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD) (The property of Mr. F. W. Phillips, The Manor House, Hitchin)] [Illustration: FIG. 13. WALL MIRROR (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] [Illustration: FIG. 14. WALL MIRROR (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] [Illustration: FIG. 15. "GESSO" MIRROR (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] [Illustration: FIG. 16. "GESSO" MIRROR (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] [Illustration: FIG. 17. FINE "GESSO" MIRROR (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] [Illustration: FIG. 18. MIRROR FROM "FLASK" TAVERN PIMLICO, DATE ABOUT 1700] [Illustration: FIG. 19. MARQUETRY MIRROR (EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY)] [Illustration: FIG. 20. TOILET MIRROR WITH DRAWERS (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] [Illustration: FIG. 21. TOILET MIRROR ON STAND (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] [Illustration: FIG. 22. STOOL (PERIOD OF WILLIAM AND MARY)] [Illustration: FIG. 23. FINE STOOL (PERIOD QUEEN ANNE)] [Illustration: FIG. 24 FIG. 25 FIG. 26 FINE CHAIRS (PERIOD WILLIAM AND MARY)] [Illustration: FIG. 27. FINE CHAIR (PERIOD WILLIAM AND MARY)] [Illustration: FIG. 28. SIMPLE CHAIR (PERIOD WILLIAM AND MARY) (The property of F. W. Phillips, The Manor House, Hitchin, Herts)] [Illustration: FIG. 29 FIG. 30 FIG. 31 SIMPLE CHAIRS (PERIOD QUEEN ANNE) (The property of Mr. J. H. Springett, High Street, Rochester)]