It is not too much to hope that enough has been said concerning Jacobean furniture of the early and middle seventeenth century to show that it possesses a peculiar charm and simplicity in the lines of its construction, which make it a very pleasing study to the earnest collector who wishes to procure a few genuine specimens of old furniture, which, while being excellent in artistic feeling, are not unprocurable by reason of their rarity and excessive cost. It should be within the power of the careful collector, after following the hints in this volume, and after examining well-selected examples in such a collection as that at the Victoria and Albert Museum, to obtain, without unreasonable expenditure, after patient search, one or two Jacobean pieces of undoubted authenticity.

By permission of Messrs. Fenton & Sons.
JACOBEAN OAK CHAIRS.
Armchair, time of Charles I.
Yorkshire chair.
Late seventeenth century.

RECENT SALE PRICES.[1]

£s.d.
Cabinet, Jacobean oak, with two drawers, and folding doors below enclosing drawers, decorated with rectangular panels in relief, inlaid in ebony and ivory, and with baluster columns at the side—48 in. high, 46 in. wide. Christie, November 27, 19034420
Cabinet, Jacobean black oak, 5 ft. wide by 6 ft. 2 in. high, fitted with cupboards above and below, with sunk panelled folding doors, carved with busts of warriors in high relief, the pilasters carved with mask heads and caryatid figures, the whole carved with floral scrolls and other devices. Capes, Dunn & Pilcher, Manchester, December 9, 19035700
Chairs, set of three Jacobean oak, with canework seats, and panels in the backs, the borders carved with scrolls, and on scroll legs with stretchers. Christie, January 29, 190452100
Table, Cromwell, oak, on spiral legs. Dowell, Edinburgh, March 12, 19041106
Elbow-chair, oak, Scotch, back having carved wheel, "A. R., 1663." Dowell, Edinburgh, March 12, 190460180
Cabinet, Jacobean oak, with drawer and folding doors below, with moulded rectangular panels and balusters in relief, 50 in. high, 46 in. wide. Christie, July 1, 190435140

CRADLE, TIME OF CHARLES I.
CARVED OAK; WITH LETTERS G. B. M. B. DATED 1641.
(Victoria and Albert Museum.)

[1] By the kindness of the proprietors of the Connoisseur these items are given from their useful monthly publication, Auction Sale Prices.