Dutch and Flemish Furniture
china ink-box and two sand-boxes. Among her articles
for the table she also owned three wooden painted dishes
and a wooden tray with feet; also "a thing to put
spoons in." A parcel of toys and a collar for a dog
are among the miscellaneous articles.
Turning now to another Dutch house in New Amster-
dam—that of the barber-surgeon, Mr. Jacob de Lange,
whose inventory was taken in 1685—we find the rooms
consisting of a foreroom, side chamber, chamber, kitchen,
shop and cellar. Mr. de Lange has a remarkable collec-
tion of porcelain and pictures, a great deal of fine furni-
ture, rich clothing, jewels and East India cabinets,
beautiful hangings, etc., etc.
Mr. de Lange's furniture consists of twelve chairs
upholstered with red plush, six with green plush, eleven
matted chairs, seven chairs with wooden backs and a
church chair. He has two " cann boards," two small
" cloak boards," a hat press, a clothes press, a square
table, a round table, a small round table, and an oak
drawing-table, a small square cabinet with brass hoops,
one waxed East India small trunk, one square black
small sealing waxed trunk, one silver thread wrought
small trunk, and an ivory small trunk tipped with silver.
He also owned an East India rush case containing nine-
teen wine and beer glasses, and an East India waxed
cabinet with brass bands and hinges, containing gloves,
ribbons, laces, fourteen fans and seven purses in the
first partition ; laces, buckles and ribbons in the second ;
cloth in the third ; caps in the fourth ; fans, bands,
scarfs, garters and girdles in the fifth ; silk, fringe and
calico in the sixth; silk and materials for purses in
the seventh, and spectacles in the eighth.

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