Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-09
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
 EXHIBITS PAI MFR EIlRNIT

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city On exhibition of eighteenth century American fur niture has just been opened, showing a collection made by George s. Pal mer, who formerly resided in this city and is now a resident of New London.
 The New York Times says of the exhibition:
 There will be opened for exhibition today in Galleries J9 and 10 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art a recent ly acquired possession of mid eight eenth century American furniture which. with collections already in the possession of the museum, will make the most complete assemblage of household furnishings of our country that can be brought together The collection is a part of that assembled after thirty years of strenuous effort by George s. Palmer of New London in acquiring the treasures which now, through the museum, become the property of the public
 R. T. H. Halsey, expert on these lines and a fellow collector of MT. Palmer. is authority for the statement that he and other experts in fine old furniture had no idea that such beau | titul pieces as Mir. Palmer discovered had ever been made in America MT. Halsey says that the museum has now an unrivalled collection of American | furniture
 There are forty-one American made 1 tieces in the collection which the mu- scum has acquired, and twenty five English. They are now arranged in | the two galleries in which they are l shown as nearly as possible as they 1 would be in a privaNl homo. Tha 1 American made in one room and the English in another. Only one Ameri- can piece has strayed into the English room, a piece of much interest, a mixing table, which came from Bal i timore, on which were prepared the various kinds of beverages which in the earlier days took the place of the cocktail. It is a charming piece of 1 furniture, of much delicate grace small closets or cellarets at the sides holding the bottles.
 There are old desks, highbcys and 1 l0wboys. pie crust tables a high post bedstead. and an unusual piece is a 1 knife and fork holder on casters. The | lcwer part of this is shaped like an | oblong ottoman upon which is the box | divided Tn two sections, like the famil- | jar knife box, but of much larger size 1 Two royal armchairs of walnut, Eng fish of the latter part of the seven 1 teenth century, are gems of the col lection; there are side tables of great distinction, tall clocks of full size an6
 others in miniature A desk made 1T
 Connecticut has 27 drawers, and 2 1 tiny ladies" desk with ball and claw feet is an exquisite little piece of fur,
 njture. Queen Anne. Chippendale
 Sheraton and Heppelwiete periods are represented.
 The American made furniture tht
 experts find has charm of it's own
 being less elaborate than that mad,
 on the other si6e of the water. O the American makers the identity O l one has been discovered, William Say
 cry, who had his shop At the Sigl
 of the Chair. a little below the Mar
 ket in Second street. PhES>1elrhia. Tn
 Palmer collection is rich in the WorI
 of this man.
 An interesting feature If the exhi
 bition is the showing with it on tn
 walls of the galleries in which it
 exhibited designs from the batter
 books of the old English furniture de
 signers. Chippendale and the others
 from which the cabinet makers of thei
 day and later drew literally. The collection will remain on exhibi tion as collection only until Jan.
 Eventually this and the other coI1ec : tions will be brought together, fillin an entire wing of the museum IA DOT tion of the Bolles collection of fur
 niture, acquired by the museur through the generosity of Mrs. Russe Sage. which has not yet been seen b
 the public. is now also being show in the basement of the museum.