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  Ancient Furniture"--The Glastonbury Chair--Introduction of Frames into England--Characteristics of Native Woodwork--Famous Country Mansions--


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  The Master''s Chair in the Brewers'' Hall Carved Oak "Livery" Cupboard Carved Oak Napkin Press Three Chairs From


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  Door of Carved Sandal Wood From Travancore Persian Incense Burner of Engraved Brass Governor''s Palace


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  Manfulut Specimen of Saracenic Panelling A Carved Door of Syrian Work Shaped Panel of Saracenic Work Chapter VI


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  the "Chinese" Style Fac-simile of Title Page of Chippendale''s "Gentleman and Cabinet Maker''s Director" Two Book Cases From Chippendale''s "Director" Tea Caddy Carved in the French Style (Chippendale)


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  the Glastonbury Chair--Introduction of Frames into England--Characteristics of Native Woodwork--Famous Country Mansions


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  Drawings" Extending Folding Framed Kneehole Pier Side Joined Standing Wine Tables and Trestles Tadema


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  Wurthi Sur: My respective love to you, remembering and acknowledging your many kindnesses and respect to me.


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id: 14298
title: The Art of Interior Decoration
author: Burbank, Emily
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  scheme.--Plan wall space for furniture.--Shades for lights.--Important Porch-rooms.--Appropriate furnishings.--Colour schemes. of long wall-space.--Men''s rooms.--Table decoration.--Tea table.--How PLATE VII Corner of a Room, Showing Painted Furniture, Antique and PLATE IX Dining-room in Country House, Showing Modern Painted PLATE X Dining-room Furniture, Italian Renaissance, Antique. Design and colour of wall decorations, hangings, carpets, to match the walls, giving decorative value to them with coloured silk [Illustration: _Corner of Room, Showing Painted Furniture, Antique and antique silks for hangings and table covers; but no decorator, if at room, or decorator''s shop, the chintz of dull, faded colours, as they An ideal dining-room of its kind, modern painted furniture, [Illustration: _Dining-room in Country House, Showing Modern Painted is decorated so as to harmonise with the colours in the room. frames in line with the period of your room cut in open designs to As to walls, do not use a cold colour in a north or shaded room.


id: 12254
title: Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time
author: Litchfield, Frederick
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  [Illustration: Interior of a French Chateau Shewing Furniture of the Time. chair is constructed of wood, overlaid with carved ivory work and gold. [Illustration: Carved Wood Chair, Scandinavian Work. [Illustration: A High Backed Chair, in Carved Oak (Gothic Style). century, makers of ornamental furniture began to copy marble mosaic work, time for carved woodwork and decorative furniture in the Netherlands was great deal of carving, and of furniture made, after designs brought from good examples of the wood carving of this period, and the illustrations [Illustration: Carved Ebony Chair of Indo-portuguese Work, Given by Work--Bombay Furniture--Ivory Chairs and Table--Specimens in the India Work--Bombay Furniture--Ivory Chairs and Table--Specimens in the India designs--Italian carving--Cabinet work--General remarks. designs--Italian carving--Cabinet work--General remarks. At this time furniture design and manufacture, as an Industrial Art in [Illustration: Design for a Work Table, By H. a general rule the art of design in furniture and decorative woodwork was


id: 34897
title: Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings
author: Northend, Mary Harrod
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  Another fine old home is the Cabot house, also in Salem. interesting of old-time homes,--the Colonel Jeremiah Lee mansion, built Equally as interesting as these old homes are several houses in New Another fine example of a box-bordered, old-time garden is seen at sight of an old-time garden recalls to-day the early owners, and in [Illustration: PLATE XVII.--Old Fireplace in Wentworth House, Mr. Oliver, shows old-time fireplaces in many rooms, one of brass being Square, Salem, is shown a wonderful wall paper, representing an old-time Chairs of all types are found in any number of old-time homes, those in Included among these old-time pieces are chests, which in early days did New England, one very fine example of the early type showing the drop were found in the old General Abbot house at Salem, until a few years shows more variety in design than any of the other old-time furnishings.


id: 34877
title: Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors
author: Hayden, Arthur
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  CARVED OAK CHEST, English, Sixteenth Century 59 CARVED OAK COFFER, French, showing interlaced ribbon-work 61 PANEL OF CARVED OAK, English, early Sixteenth Century 68 CARVED WALNUT DOOR (UPPER HALF), French, showing ribbon-work 91 JACOBEAN CARVED OAK CHAIRS, Yorkshire and Derbyshire types 101 Carved Oak in Woodwork and Furniture from Ancient Houses. English furniture of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, [Illustration: FRENCH CARVED OAK COFFER. with tapestries, and lined with carved oak chairs and elaborate cabinets virginal, carved in walnut, illustrated, shows this form of decoration. specimens of early Jacobean furniture, illustrations of which are In the illustration of a sixteenth-century chair in common use in Italy, The fine, high-backed oak Stuart chair, elaborately carved [Illustration: JACOBEAN CARVED OAK CHAIRS. the fine collection of old furniture of this period at the Victoria and The three panels at the top are finely carved and are Jacobean work.


id: 47917
title: The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways
author: Moore, N. Hudson
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  good old furniture in the United States, chiefly of Spanish, Dutch and Deacon House in Boston, or like Mrs. Gardiner''s Venetian carved wood Figure 1 shows an ancient carved-oak bed of the time of Queen The great Dutch _kas_, or chest, was a very large and ornamental piece cabinet-makers, this chair shows well that form of foot which came to and the rooms above set out with chairs and tables, cabinets, cupboards beds with serge hangings, folding tables and Turkey-work chairs. the new wood in his own beautiful house, but had splendidly carved oak Like Adam, Hepplewhite made great use of satin-wood for whole pieces Figure 39 shows a handsome sofa of carved mahogany, Empire style, "Mahogany Furniture, 3 elegant desks & book cases, 1 chest upon to a new work called Household Furniture for the year 1760, by are many clocks with English works housed in Dutch cases, but this is


id: 44603
title: Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture
author: Hayden, Arthur
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  tables, dressers, and chairs possess particular styles of treatment dates to cottage and farmhouse furniture--Oak the chief wood early seventeenth century--the chest, the table, the form, and the use until mid-seventeenth-century days the illustration of an oak dresser, the table and the chair in its various forms, the Bible-box fine example, in date about 1640, of a triangular gate-leg table. chairs had at a later date, when every country cabinet-maker was and in executed furniture, the old gate-leg table still survived. Of this particular type of oak Dresser the two examples illustrated The forms of design of tables of eighteenth-century date are Early days--The typical Jacobean oak chair--The evolution of Early days--The typical Jacobean oak chair--The evolution of [Illustration: COUNTRY CHIPPENDALE CHAIR, STYLE MERGING INTO [Illustration: TWO CHAIRS COUNTRY HEPPLEWHITE STYLE MADE ENTIRELY [Illustration: TYPES OF COTTAGE CHAIRS IN OAK. [Illustration: ELM CHAIR, COUNTRY CHIPPENDALE STYLE.] [Illustration: OAK CHAIR, COUNTRY CHIPPENDALE STYLE.


id: 51626
title: Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut
author: Candee, Helen Churchill
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  [Illustration: Plate I--THE SMALL JACOBEAN ROOM OF ELEGANCE AND INTIMACY] XXI Charles II chairs in varying styles in carving 43 William and Mary, and that great rarity, a straight oak chair known as [Illustration: Plate V--EARLY JACOBEAN CHEST OF CARVED OAK] ornament of furniture in England during the seventeenth century they Had the chairs of early Stuart time not been heavily made and squarely [Illustration: Plate IX--OAK CHAIRS Early XVII example of the heavy turned work of the day, and numerous oak chairs [Illustration: Plate XV--OAK GATE-LEG DINING TABLE the styles of the seventeenth century up to the time of William and [Illustration: Plate XXI--CHARLES II CHAIRS OF VARYING STYLES IN William and Mary styles, like all of the seventeenth century, are at The shape of the leg in these finely carved chairs is to be noticed, [Illustration: Plate XXVIII--CARVED CHAIRS. [Illustration: Plate XXIX--WALNUT CHAIRS, WILLIAM AND MARY


id: 43805
title: Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne
author: Reveirs-Hopkins, A. E. (Alfred Edward)
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  What is termed the Queen Anne period of furniture may be said to date 11 and 12 are simple mirrors of the Queen Anne period. Another form of decoration applied to mirror-frames of the Queen Anne Fig. 20 is an example of a toilet mirror of the Queen Anne period, the early Queen Anne period covered with Petit-point needlework, with which Fig. 23 is a large stool of the Queen Anne period with escallop-shell Fig. 32 is a simple type of Queen Anne chair with cabriole legs, carved work, as in the chests of drawers, cabinets, and clock-cases showing SIMPLE WALL MIRROR (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD) SIMPLE TOILET MIRROR (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD) SIMPLE CHAIRS (PERIOD QUEEN ANNE) SIMPLE CHAIRS WITH CABRIOLE LEGS (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD) 41 FINE CHAIR (LATE QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] 41 FINE CHAIR (LATE QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] 41 FINE CHAIR (LATE QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)] WRITING TABLE (QUEEN ANNE PERIOD)]


id: 54602
title: Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork
author: Pollen, John Hungerford
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  as carved chests and cabinets, decorated with the most finished wood These early pieces of furniture were probably executed in wood, The great period of Greek art began in the fifth century B.C.; but furniture made of wood and kept in use from the days of ancient Rome. England, France, and Germany, oak was the wood employed for furniture. The forms of chairs in use in Italy early in the fifteenth century kinds of wood furniture and decoration of houses delighted in doubling As the general material of furniture in the sixteenth century of remarkable pieces of carved wood furniture belonging to this period tenacious: and the work, like most of the old furniture carving, is chairs usual in the sixteenth century, and which were in general use great pieces of furniture fell into the same character of forms. carved ebony furniture, mainly chairs and cabinets, dating generally


id: 56467
title: A Book of Distinctive Interiors
author: nan
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  The ground plan of the room shows a good arrangement of rugs and The finish of the room is white wood, given four coats of lead and oil The cost of the furniture used in this room, covered in cotton, made Two living-rooms in an old Connecticut Colonial house that are A living-room decorated along Colonial lines, where the fireplace of A charming, little Colonial room is decorated entirely in white An exemplification of the use of deep colors in the living-room The cream colored walls and woodwork in this English drawing-room design of the wall paper is echoed in the green rug with a white White woodwork in this dining-room permits such a set design as this However small the room, the light must be well arranged good in design, and, with plain tinted walls, a room in which the Both rooms show a good use of colored tile worked in


