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 and Sentime?Jts. 375 joynyd cheyer, ij. joynyd ftolys." The ordinary forms of chairs and ftools at the latter end of the fifteenth century are fliown in our cut No. 244, taken from a very curious fculpture in alto-rehevo on one of the columns No. 244. Sculpture from the Hotel-de-ViUe, Brujfeh. of the H6tel-de-Ville at Bruffels. At this time we begin to find examples of chairs ingenioufly confirufted, for folding up or taking to pieces, fo as to be eafily laid afide or carried away. Some of thefe refemble exaftly our modern camp-ftools. A curious bed- room chair of this conftruftion is repre- lented in our cut No. 245, taken from a fine illuminated manufcript of the romance of the " Comte d'Artois," of the fifteenth century, in the colledion of ]M. Barrois of Paris, but now, I believe, in the library of lord Alhburnham. The conftruction of this chair is too evident to need explanation. It explains the phrafe, ufed in fome of our old writers, of unfolding a chair. At this time much greater ufe ap- ■ pears to have been made of candles than ^'°- 245- ^ Bedroom Chair. formerly, and they feem to have been conllruaed of ditierent fubfiances and qualities. Candlefiicks, made ufually of the mixed metal called laton