Ancient and Modern Furniture and WoodworkPollen, John Hungerford
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Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork
Pollen, John Hungerford
Furniture; Woodwork
Lares, 28
Lebrun, first head of the "Gobelins," 95
Le Pautre family, 104
Litters, Roman, 31
Lock (Matthias), 112
Locks in Roman houses, 21
Louvre, Egyptian boxes, 6
Maggiolino, 111
Mansard, 104
Marquetry, Venetian, 62
" seventeenth century, 92, 93
" Boule, 95
Meissonnier, 104, 108
Metallurgy, British, 42
Micque, 108
Mirror, Greek, 13
" renaissance, 69
Mirror frames, sixteenth century, 71
" " Venetian, 91, 99
" made in England, seventeenth century, 99, 100
Mosaic, Roman, pavements and on walls, 19
" or pietra dura, 74
Natoire, 108
Nero, colossus in his house, 25
Nineveh furniture, 6
Nuptiale, 18
[OE]ci, 20
Oppenord, 108
Ostium, 18
Paintings and pictures in Roman houses, 22
" in thirteenth century, of rooms, 48, 49
Panelling for rooms, 49
" oriental, 57
" of a chest, 60
" English, sixteenth century, 79, 80
" French, sixteenth century, 84
" English, 86
Pedestal, 90
Penates, 18
Peristylium, 20
Persian furniture, 8
" marquetry, 63
Picture-frames, renaissance, 71
Pomeranian cabinet at Berlin, 92
Pompeii, value of discoveries, 16
Porcelain given to Queen Elizabeth, 130
Pottery, time of Edward I., 49
Pudens, ancient house of, 20
Pugin, 114
Queverdo, 108
Religious houses, their woodwork, 63
" " safe generally from spoliation, 67
Renaissance in Italy, 66
" materials employed, 69
" in England, France, &c., 78
Restout, Jean, 104
Riesener, 105, 108, 109
Robert, 108
Rococo furniture, 103
Roentgen, 108, 109
Roman habits, at first simple, 16
" house, 18
" couches in dining-rooms, 19, 27
" locks and hinges, 21
" tables, 25
" chairs, 28
" kitchen utensils, 30
Roof of Westminster Hall, 55
Room decorations, French, eighteenth century, 107
Room of Marie Antoinette's time at South Kensington, 107
Roundels, 129
Salembier, 108
Scamnum, 28
Sculpture, architectural, &c., fourteenth century, 56
" renaissance, 69
Settle or seat, fourteenth century, 51
Sheraton, Thomas, 113
Sideboards, 128
Silks for furniture, eighteenth century, 107
Stuart style of woodwork and furniture, 85, 96
Table, Egyptian, 124
" Nineveh, 8
" Roman, 25, 125
" " veneered, 27
" " great value, 27
" Norman, 46
" furniture of, fourteenth century, 50
" fourteenth and fifteenth century, 53, 58, 125
" sixteenth century, 71
" of Francesco de' Medici, 75
" French, sixteenth century, 80, 81
" English, seventeenth century, 102
" long kept at Flaxton Hall, 126
Tapestry first brought to Rome, 17
" in Roman houses, 30
" in England, fourteenth century, &c., 50, 61
" Gobelin, 95
Tarsia, 62, 73, 74
Temple of Diana, 33
Theatre of C. Curio, 32
Tigrinæ tables, 26
Triclinium, 18, 117
Tripods, 22
Tudor cabinet at South Kensington, 78
" style, 85
Vase from Hadrian's villa, 25
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