IRON DOOR-HANDLE AND ESCUTCHEON
CARVED DOOR OF WALL-CUPBOARD, WITH PIERCED AND ENGRAVED IRON FITTINGS
The further illustration of a Hindeloopen room from Leeuwarden (page [141]) is especially interesting, for around the walls are cupboard-like apartments that afforded accommodation for sleeping. They are closed by wooden doors which have open-work panels at their heads to permit the passage of air. The beds, resembling a ship’s berths, are reached by flights of steps, two of which will be seen in the reproduction. These steps are movable and curiously shaped and painted, as is demonstrated by the flight in the foreground with its side boards made to imitate birds and flowers. Other old Dutch interiors—cheerful with coloured plates, tiles and quarries, shining brass and carved woodwork—furnish instances of this particular disposition of sleeping accommodation.
WALL-CUPBOARD WITH IRON LOCK AND HINGES (16TH CENTURY)
DELFT DISHES (18TH CENTURY)
CARVED TABLE FROM EDAM