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7Teriod^ by H. ^Ipray Tipping Jonathan C^pe SleTen Gower Street, London

(Cape, 1922). FurniWells, Percy A., and Hooper, John ... Satinwood). Macquoid, Percy, and Edwards, Ralph. The Dictionary of(Country Life ... .Cottage(Phoenix House, 1949). Rogers, John C.

humidity.production in Tidewater, Virginia, centered in Williamsburg, the capital after ... Williamsburgwas Dining table. Walnut with yellow pine. made in quantity beginning in ... simple curves andinstead of glue blocks, a technique legs ending in pad feetsplat relates to designs of mid-18thcenturyChippendale chairs, but the rounded crest and symmetrical carving indicate a date at the end of the Queen Anne. Therear leg ending in a hoof is also ancharacteristic often seen on New York chairs. Thescrolled feet recall the stylish foot on French andof the 18th century ... oblong tables ridienne, or short sofa (Figure rested onlegs linked by ... , urngrate from along the walls to like finial (Figure X-14). Other, serving in

delicately proportionedlegs of distinctly Queen Anne lines made well on towards the latter part of the eighteenthleg The century. This persistence of... 423 OTHER AMERICANvalue. 305 and cow, club, or hoof foot, characteristic ofother subsequentstyles found New York thoroughlyin culture and tastes, and ... 425 OTHER AMERICANfeatures 307 were introduced, for bulb turnings (Key XVIII, 1), inverted cup turnings,legs and hoof feet (Key XIX, 5) were426 308 PRACTICAL BOOK OFafterwards prominent in Pennsylvania history ... the almost universal simplicity of this William and Maryin Pennsylvania and West Jersey is ... way into favour and very early in the eighteenth century appeared theleg, hoof

be the inventor of a new general shape ofthan he has to the origination... another genius, Constable. This has to a large extent been the attitude of historians of... shapes of is eighteenth-century; and though he one of the strongest linksinteresting examples of theof this. In Queen Mary's privy-chamber at ... legs are, but of harshly rectangular section. spiral-turned card-table has ... same rectangular-sectionedleg, and curved stretchers to match. The feet are carved with218The inlay of these bands is an oak-leaf pattern. There ... drawers are found raised upon a lower part containing drawers and based uponlegs, as is so often the rosette. case with the plainerof the early eighteenth

the ornamentation of this style of. Legs and feet of this form areor ... the design style, as it was also the center of fashion at the time. Newforms of this... be used. Victorian, 1830-1890: The Victorianas it relates tostyles can

is typical somewhat later about 1710 with Queen Annelegs and ... 127 OLDof the afterthought in decoration. 109 The owners -- Messrs. Story ... plainlegs. On the front surmounted is a view of a lake with Oriental figuresQuare, 88 George Graham, 87 grandfather, S9-94 in lacquer, 90legs, 53 Chairs ... , Clifford's Inn, 7 Queen Anne, shaped, 56 51-57 William and Mary, 50-51 withlegs ... tallboy, 70-71 veneered, 67-68 withlegs. 69 Escallop-shell decoration, 54 Evelyn on197 INDEX Tables, inverted tion, "5 bowl decora- 60 William and Mary, 61 withlegs, 63 with claw-and-ball feet, 63 with escallop-shell decoration, 63 Verrio, his ... Hampton costume, 48-49 Woodcraft, ancient, 16 Thackeray, 12 on Queen Anne (clock-

the springknee, a lion's claw holding a very flat ball; and a leg upon which ... carved with a chute of husks and resting on a square base; theleg, ending in ... shows a dolphin's tail gracefully carved upon acurve, while his head is used for548 FRENCH AND"For chairs, a new and very elegant fashion has ... prevailing colour to theand light of the room, affords opportunity, by ... convenient." Chairs with stuffed backs he called "." No. 5, on Plate LVI., is labelled a "404 FRENCH ANDthe shell, the eagle, the draped urn, the grotesque dog or monkey's head holding the ends of two garlands in his mouth, the long-tailed and ... a sofa of sweeping curve, three shortlegs supporting it in front. A stiff rolled

preceding it. did not originate in England but was the effect of importations The Queen of... chairs havelegs of walnut or mahogany sometimes ornamented by a 126. little ... Mrs. V. D. Cliff1650132. Flemish-arm chair, Original Antique These chairs arethe era of the greatest Britishdesigners, among the most celebrated being ... his life, but his all in the Eighteenthhas stood the test of time which ... the chair. the claw and ball foot, the He introduced theleg, straight square early

before the eighteenth century reached that shaping (such as in the instance... 157 The Progression ofOak Tables training of the eye and a taste in details and proportions which make the turned balusters of thisreal works of art.^a125 The Progression ofOak Tables with aof from 1689 to 1705, running parallel with the shaped orits leg, in various forms, for about the last seven of ... being more illuminating, although it may involvereturns to a starting-point. The advantages ofparallel, for a part of this, with theform. The twist or spiral turning to. much more if it confined inthan the other patterns just referred for ... 123 The Progression ofOak Tables turned legs of date prior to the last quarter