Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-01-05
NOBLE OLD FURNITURE.
A Peep Into a Depository Of the Re-
mains of Titled House Furnish
ings.--Something Only to Be Seen

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mains Of Titled House Furnish
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in Pars.
Lucy lloopsr's Paris Letter.
| have lately been taken behind tht
scenes, 50 to speak, of a great brancl
Of commerce, and have been showl
some of the inner machinery of one OF
the great establishments for the sale Of
secondhand furniture, Of which Paris
can boast some three or four, but
scarcely any other 50 extensive or pre-
sided over with so much taste and in
telligence as is the one | visited. The
proprietor, NJ. Wharf, is young
man of about thirty, with pleasing
and polished manners, and with a
keener scent for anything artistic IL
his line of business than can be readily
imagined by those who do not know
how complicated and extensive as well
as artistic that business is. For the
secondhand furniture stores of Paris
that is to say, these very large ones
are simply wonderful in their way
and are unlike anything that is known
in that line on this side of the Allan,
tic.
No one must imagine that the furni.
ture in these shops bears any trace of
its ever having been used before, ex.
cept in the case of fine artistic work
such as carving, tapestry, inlaid wood
work, etc, whose manufacture belongs
wholly to the past. Every soiled, OF
worn, or damaged piece of furniture
is carried off at once to the branch
warehouse, or rather workshop, which
might be called the hospital for Grip,
pied or inlirm chairs and tables. Fa.
ded, soiled and worn coverings are
stripped off, broken springs are re-
paired, every missing bit Of carving is
carefully replaced, and finally the piece
recovered, resulted, mended, var
nished, with all the gloss and fresh
ness of newness about it, takes its
place in the show room. Very often,
however, the goods come into the deal
er's hands in perfect order. And very
magnificent these goods often are, to
judge by my late inspection of NJ. Wi
arts wares. A drawing-roOm suite
from the DemidOff sale at the San Do
nato palace, the massive woodwork
elabOrately carved and gilt, was COW
cred with a cream satin, Oh which
ground were displayed classic groups
and graceful arabesques in shaded
crimson velvet. Another superb suite,
with shaded velvet flowers in their
natural hues on satin ground, was of
immense extent. could not begin TO
count the arm-chairs, sofas, etc, that
it comprised, TO say nothing of cur
tains for six windows, each three yards
and a half long. This splendid set
came from Genoese palace. Then
there was a drawing.rOOm set in gold,
yellow brOcade, which had been or
dered by Queen Christina, of Spain,
but, being left on the upholsterer's
hands by reason of the death of that
princess, it had found its way TO the
show rooms of NJ. Wiart. At one side
stood the gigantic and gorgeous bed
stead which had figured in the Chinese
department Of the exhibition of 1876,
all ablaze with scarlet and gold, and
overrun with carving as delicately
fine as that wherewith the patient Ce-
lestials are accustomed to adOrn an
ivory fan or nest of ivory balls. These
carvings, as an eminent Chinese scholar
recently informed NJ Wharf, represent
scenes ON the life of some noted Chinese
personage-a saint, if recOllect right
ly-showing his whole career from the
cradle to the grave. This bedstead is
Il veritable bedroom in itself. 1t is of
as quare boX-shape, but without roof
has glass window at the end, and a
place for two chairs at one side. 1t
was purchased at the exhibition by the
Princess Mathilde, to adOrn her country
seat at Enghien, but proved Il very ele-
phant on her hands, being too large for
any one OF the rooms in her villa, so it
was resold to NJ. Wharf at a price far
below its original cost, which was, |
believe, $1,000. One tenth that sum
would buy it now, suppose, though |
did not ask its price. Two doors from
the National library of Paris attracted
my attention. They date from the
foundation of that institution, in the
days of Louis XIV, and are enriched
with artistic carvings, Less esthetic
but more superb was the door from the
San Donatopalace; a sheet of malachite
with mouldings in gilded bronze, a door
fit to shut in the treasure chamber Of
Aladdin's palace. Then was shown
a beautiful little cabinet in the famous
and priceless Vernis Martin, which
Vernis Martin, by-the.way, is varnish,
as its name denotes, and not china,
as OuIda declared it to be in her novel
of Puck. Less rare and equally beauti-
full was an antique Italian cabinet of
ebony and ivory, with the doors inlaid
with plaques of lapis-lazuli and cornell
an; this splendid piece of furniture
came from the Musard sale, and had
been presented to Nine. Musard by the
king of Holland. | will not attempt
to describe the costly knick-knacks that
abounded on every side; the Sevres and
Dresden china, the Balbedienne bronzes
the toys in carved ivory and gilded
bronze, etc. NJ. Wiart buys everything
and understands everything, from 8
carriage down to a card receiver, from
an ivory paper cutter to a set of gold
gObelin tapestries. His rooms are like
branch of the Hotel Cluny, only will
this difference, that the treasures there
in may be purchased. He will fit you
up an apartment at any price you may
name, from one thousand dollars Il
twenty thousand. Only, for the first
named amount, the purchaser will moi
be apt to find many Seyres vases ol
tapestry hangings among the plenishing
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