One brown damask bed with gold coloured flowers, ten armed chairs, one couch, one door curtain, eight chair bottoms and four pieces of hangings of the same. Two carpets of India velvet, the ground with red flowers. One small tapestry carpet with gold ground. One Indian carpet with gold ground and coloured flowers. One damask bed with a violet ground and flowers of gold straw-work and with colours with borders of velvet cut in Persian figures, six pieces of hangings belonging to the bed, whereof the middle are Persian carpets gold ground and the borders of gold coloured silk serge, on which are fixed the same figures with the bed, nine armed chairs, two door curtains, six borders, with figures and birds. Eight curtains of white damask and twelve yards of white mohair. 30 silver plates weighing 531 oz. 1 large silver dish, 66 oz. 4 small do., 125 oz. 1 silver pan, 36 oz. 1 do. basin, one deep dish, 23 oz. 1 silver kettle and cover, 107 oz. 1 do. chafing-dish or lamp, 47 oz., 9 dwt. 1 do. water boiler, 42 oz., 10 dwt. 1 do. chocolate-pot, 24 oz. 1 do., do., 11 oz., 10 dwt.

1 do. sugar mustard and pepper castor, 41 oz.

2 silver salt-cellars.

12 forks and 12 spoons, 58 oz. 1 large soup-spoon, 10 oz., 10 dwt.

1 skimmer 7 oz., 19 dwt.

8 fruit knives, 8 forks and 8 spoons. 12 silver hafted knives, 22 oz.

2 German silver salvers, gilt, 21 oz., 7 dwt.

8 German silver salvers, gilt, 118 oz.

6 goblets and 3 vases of silver gilt, 78 oz., 15 dwt.

2 large salt sellars, 2 goblets, with covers of silver gilt, 91 oz. 1 silver teapott, gilt.

1 small silver skillet.

2 silver Indian teapotts, 30 oz.

2 pair silver branches, 138 oz.

1 pair Berlin silver candlesticks, 50 oz., 5 dwt.

3 pair small silver candlesticks, 26 oz.

2 pair silver candlesticks, gilt.

2 pair silver candlesticks, snuffers and snuff pan of same. 1 silver tea-table, 133 oz., 5 dwt. 1 silver bason on pedestal in form of stand, 79 oz.,

8 dwt. 1 silver cistern pierced, supported by 4 dolphins. 1 small branched candlestick, silver gilt, 34 oz.

1 small German silver cistern, gilt, 23 oz.

2 Triangular German salt sellars, silver gilt.

1 small silver set half gilt, containing 3 small dishes, 4 plates, 1 goblet. 1 salt sellar, 1 knife, 1 spoon, and 1 fork of same, 58 oz., 2 dwt.

2 silver knobs for a grate and 5 handles for tongues fire shool, etc, and four hooks to support the fire shool, etc., all of silver.

1 German silver pott for broach and cover gilt. 1 small German barrell ornamented with silver.

1 silver clock.

2 greenish bottles with white flowers.

1 marble veind urn.

2 great beakes with serpents.

1 large beaker with colored flowers. 6 green goblets.

2 marble veind ditto.

1 large pott and cover and 2 small ones. 2 coruetts and covers. 2 coruetts without covers.

2 large coruetts.

3 large water pots.

2 bottles.

3 small bottles with colored flowers.

2 bottles, Phillimot with colored flowers. 1 pot, Phillimot and white. 8 urns.

1 large beaker.

2 small beakers.

2 beakers with figures. 2 bottles.

2 bottles of new China. 2 beakers of new China.

1 bottle all of one colour.

2 potts and covers of new China.

1 piece red china ware.

2 coruetts blew and white.

1 large dish.

2 Japan bowles. 2 green bottles.

2 coruetts and 2 beakers, blew and white.

4 green cupps. 2 small muggs.

1 small coffee colored urn with white flowers.

2 blew and white cisterns. 1 marble veind cisterns.

4 small marble veind cisterns.

1 large colored dish.

2 large green dishes. 17 green plates.

1 large blew and white dish. 6 dishes, white and colored.

11 plates, white and colored.

1 bowle of the same sort.

1 blew and white bason, dragons at the bottom.

1 large blew and white pott and cover.

2 large blew and white urns.

2 blew and white bottles.

2 yellow cupps.

1 large brown tea pott, covered with a lyon.

1 other large brown tea pott.

2 colored tea potts.

2 colored sollet dishes.

2 colored beakers with roses.

2 cupps and covers of the same.

1 bowle of the same with roses.

2 black urns with colored flowers.

2 mustard potts.

2 potts and covers.

2 large blew and white urns.

1 blew and white bowle.

1 colored Japand dish. 20 plates, the ground green with colored flowers.

2 beakers, the ground white with circles.

1 bowle, the ground white, with colored circles.

1 teapot, the ground white, with colored circles.

2 other tea potts.

4 salvers with vine blossoms.

6 green dishes.

The above inventory deserves most careful study, since it reveals so minutely the character of the objects that were to be found in the house of a noble lady who moved in the highest court circles during the reign of Queen Anne. The list of pictures that she left to her grandson has not been reproduced here; they were principally family portraits, and other pictures by the celebrated French painters of the early part of the reign of Louis XIV. These pictures, of course, had been brought over to England when the Marquise was exiled. Considering, however, that she had lived for thirty years in London till her death in 1722, the great bulk of the furniture in the above inventory must have been "Queen Anne."

A study of the items, however, shows that some of them, especially those marked very old, were purely Louis XIV. Others, especially the chairs that matched the beds, were probably of the Marot school.

The Oriental goods are particularly noticeable, especially the lacquer screens and Indian stuffs. The china also shows that the Marquise followed the prevailing taste. It is to be noted that there is no mention of mahogany, and the wood that appears to be most in favour is the Calembour. This is otherwise known as eagle wood, a sweet-scented species of aloes that comes from the East.

The Dutch influence that prevailed during this period naturally resulted in marquetry coming into very high favour. The ordinary cabinet woods were inlaid in geometrical, floral and animal patterns with the warmer and more beautiful tints of the exotic woods. Complete pictures were often formed on broad surfaces, such as table tops, and narrower surfaces were also decorated in this manner. Plate XXIII., No. 7, shows a small chest-of-drawers, or dressing-table, of this period, with inlaid floral ornamentation on the legs. This dates from about the beginning of the Queen Anne period. Typical objects of this class, dating between 1690 and 1710, are described as follows:

A dressing-table veneered with walnut containing three drawers with brass handles has the faces of the drawers inlaid with boxwood and ebony. A band of inlay also ornaments the top. The four legs are cabriole with web feet. A dressing-table, contains two deep drawers and a central one with brass keyplates and handles. On the lower side the front is cut into three cusps with two pendants between them. A chest-of-drawers, veneered with walnut, contains two short drawers and three long ones, inlaid on their faces with narrow strips of sycamore and rosewood. Around the top is a deep cornice, below which is a deep rounded moulding forming the face of a drawer in front. The chest is placed on a stand, containing three drawers, upon short turned legs. The front is cut into cusps and curves on the lower side. Another chest-of-drawers veneered, contains three long drawers below and two small drawers above, and a shallow drawer in the stand upon which the chest rests. The chest is surmounted by a cornice and the stand by a moulding The lower part is cut into three circular arches, with a decorative beading. The feet are four square piers resting upon turned discs. Each side is cut into a flat arch without beading.