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Dutch Furniture under French and Oriental Influence
Amsterdam was. Mary set the pace, and wealth and
aristocracy gladly followed. As an example of the
vogue, we cannot do better than take the diary of the
wealthy John Hervey, afterwards Earl of Bristol, and
quote a few entries of expenditure.
He was always buying porcelain and other Oriental
wares " for dear wife." On July 6, 1689, he notes :
" Paid to Katherine Scott for 12 leaves of cut Japan
skreens, 2 pieces of India damask and 6 Dutch chairs,
£65." In the following July, he also bought from John
van Colima, a Dutchman, who had probably followed
William III to London, " a parcel of old China for
£3 2s. 6d." Though the Earl dealt more extensively
with " Medina ye Jew," " Leeds ye mercer," " Seamer
ye goldsmith " and many " India houses " in the New
Exchange, we find him still patronizing the Dutchman
after the death of his first wife, as is shown by the follow-
ing entries : " 1696, Jan. 11 : Paid Calama, ye Dutch-
man in Green Street, for a parcell of china for my dear
wife, £31 8s. 4^. May 4: Calamar, ye Dutchman, for
another parcel of China, £10 4s." Two years later he
also pays "John Van Collema, for an Indian trunk, £35."
Another Dutchman who enjoyed this nobleman's patron-
age was " Mr. Gerreit Johnson, ye Cabinett-maker," who,
on May 25, 1696, was paid £70 " for ye black sett of
glass, table and stands, and for ye glasses, etc., over ye
chimneys and elsewhere in my dear wife's apartment."
Gerreit Johnson, whom the Earl patronized, was a
fashionable cabinet-maker who made the china-cabinets
for Queen Mary that were placed in a room at Hampton
Court called " the Delft Ware Closett." It is interest-
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Amsterdam was. Mary set the pace, and wealth and
aristocracy gladly followed. As an example of the
vogue, we cannot do better than take the diary of the
wealthy John Hervey, afterwards Earl of Bristol, and
quote a few entries of expenditure.
He was always buying porcelain and other Oriental
wares " for dear wife." On July 6, 1689, he notes :
" Paid to Katherine Scott for 12 leaves of cut Japan
skreens, 2 pieces of India damask and 6 Dutch chairs,
£65." In the following July, he also bought from John
van Colima, a Dutchman, who had probably followed
William III to London, " a parcel of old China for
£3 2s. 6d." Though the Earl dealt more extensively
with " Medina ye Jew," " Leeds ye mercer," " Seamer
ye goldsmith " and many " India houses " in the New
Exchange, we find him still patronizing the Dutchman
after the death of his first wife, as is shown by the follow-
ing entries : " 1696, Jan. 11 : Paid Calama, ye Dutch-
man in Green Street, for a parcell of china for my dear
wife, £31 8s. 4^. May 4: Calamar, ye Dutchman, for
another parcel of China, £10 4s." Two years later he
also pays "John Van Collema, for an Indian trunk, £35."
Another Dutchman who enjoyed this nobleman's patron-
age was " Mr. Gerreit Johnson, ye Cabinett-maker," who,
on May 25, 1696, was paid £70 " for ye black sett of
glass, table and stands, and for ye glasses, etc., over ye
chimneys and elsewhere in my dear wife's apartment."
Gerreit Johnson, whom the Earl patronized, was a
fashionable cabinet-maker who made the china-cabinets
for Queen Mary that were placed in a room at Hampton
Court called " the Delft Ware Closett." It is interest-
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