The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-02
ANTIQUE FURNITURE
: is PUT ON DISPLAY
Early English China and Pew.
ter Also in HOrsfield Col
lection to Be Sold.
OLD KITCHEN UTENSILS

Major George Horsneid's collection Of
antique furniture. early English china.
pewter n other household TREASURY is
now placed in the American Art Gal.
leries. 9 East T%wenty.third street, to be
on public view until the sale there next
Tuesday afternoon. conducted by
Thomas Kirby.
This is live old furniture and Il takes
only a little Imagination to All the chains
with people Of Shakespeare's England.
The pieces have been arranged to give
the atmosphere Of an actual home. The
hrst thing that calls the eye-it might
almost De said the appetite-is the long,
narrow dining table with green handled
knives and forks laid at every place.
The knives have curved blades and the
forks are three pronged.
But the diners were not limited to eat.
ins. There are horn hunting cups with
delicate chaslngs on the outer surface.
Some are ornamented with subjects re.
lating to sport.
The walls Of this gallery are nearly
hidden by the transferred oak paneliinE
OF English halls OF the seventeenth CEN
fury. one consists of seven bays, feet
By 4 feet s inches; two. Z By 3 fvet. and
two . by 3 feet s inches. Part Of the
nine pilasters are reproductions and
there " a fireplace 6 feet wide with
paneiled overmansle. The other has bays
3 by y feet and 8 by 4 feet 6 inches
One OF the largest pieces Is a fifteenth
century Gothic oak imminent chest.
This is Of rectangular shape with
oracketed feet carved In ron in panels
OF horiated Gothic design. The front,
sides and top are strapped at frequent
intervals with wrought iron straps hav-
Ing pierced fieur-de-lis examinations and
nailed with large round headed nails.
The bottom is missing.
Housewives would delight in the num-
Der OF odd receptacles for the tools OF
their daily labor. A Yorkshire cabinet
with doors and drawers large and small
has a place for every thing.
One Of the Jacobean period has over
hanging moulded and Identified cornice
and frieze decorated with sunk carving
OF strapwork design. Al the angles are
carved acanthus leaf consoles. voluted
brackets and turned pendants. The
cupboard has two hinged doors. the
frames inlaid with bog oak and holly.
wood In a checker design. The fronts
are fitted with arcadings of turned wal
heh SpahotVo uOOGF are ulNllSu
and thanked by fiuted and 'astragalled''
pilasters. A lower cupboard has two
hinged doors whose panclled fronts are
carved In a design OF interlaced strap
work. The cupboard Is supported on
turned columnar legs connected by
square reeded bottom rails.
II would never do to leave out the
great armchairs with shaped arms
built for men OF broad girth who had
dlneA Npl for yaarS Tho filinv
touch In added by the presence OF a
child's chair.
\ Chippendale table Is as deliberately
finished az though II were a musical
instrument, having Gabrielle legs and a
double top. forming chess and backgam.
mon boards.
Among the few paintings the chief
Is an immense canvas by Constable
from the collection OF Or. Elliston
president OF the British Medical .Asso-
citation. The title is Lock Gates and
| Landscape"