. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . any other nationof Western Europe. One feature of German woodwork of the fifteenth and sixteenthcenturies deserved especial mention: the iron mounts—locks, handles,and hinges—which were moredeveloped, and continueduntil a later period than inany other country. Muchironwork and some furniturewas exported to England andother countries by the Han-seatic League ; a union of freeGerman cities for protectionand the promotion of com-merce, which had now grownso strong that it could wagesuccessful wars and almostcommand the seas. The r
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . any other nationof Western Europe. One feature of German woodwork of the fifteenth and sixteenthcenturies deserved especial mention: the iron mounts—locks, handles,and hinges—which were moredeveloped, and continueduntil a later period than inany other country. Muchironwork and some furniturewas exported to England andother countries by the Han-seatic League ; a union of freeGerman cities for protectionand the promotion of com-merce, which had now grownso strong that it could wagesuccessful wars and almostcommand the seas. The rugged vigour of theGerman manifested itself inhis selection from the Re-naissance of the harsh, thegrotesque, and the laboriously intricate, rather than the Gothic forms have always appeared to the writer more sympa-thetic media than the classic for the expression of Teutonic traits,and such old pieces as the sclirank, shown in Colour Plate IV.,Part I., to embody the national temperament more attractively thanthe productions of a century FLEMISH CREDENCE. SIXTEENTH CENTUKY. PLATE XXIV GROUP OF LATE SIXTEENTH - CENTURY CONTINENTALFURNITURE: PORTUGUESE CABINET OF CHESTNUT,INLAID WITH IVORY, EBONY, AND COLOURED WOODS,SPIRAL TURNED ARM-CHAIR WITH SILVER FINIALSAND NAILS The Property ofSiE George Donaldson Though Portugal was less affected by Moorish arts than Spain,Portuguese decorative furniture, represented by the inlaid cabinetshown in this Plate, is in other respects—as might be expected fiomthe geographical and historical intimacy of the two countries—almostidentical in its trend of taste with that of Spain. Both nationsused chestnut largely as a constructional wood; both were partialto inlaid work in ivory, bone, and stained green woods. Anotherfeature common to both countries was the introduction, in a speciesof simplified landscape, of animals, birds, and plants. An extremeinstance of this treatment is afforded by a piece in the nationalcollect
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