Gate-leg table, established as a popular type, 90 Gate-leg table, square top, illustrated, 105 Geometric panels, chests of drawers, 61; dressers, 121 Georgian styles, early types, 179 Gibbons, Grinling, the style of, 56 Goldsmith, Oliver, his chair, 253 Gothic brackets to chests, 34 Gothic chests, 34 Gothic trestle, gate-leg table, 89 Grandfather chair, the, 230 Grandfather chair, curved lines of, 168 Grandfather clocks, 306 Grandfather clock combined with dresser, 129 Great Seal of Queen Anne, showing style of ornament, 168 Hardwick Hall, suite at, 55 Hepplewhite clock cases, 312 Hepplewhite influence on village work, 207 Hepplewhite quoted, 229, 230 Hepplewhite style, provincial, 221 Hertfordshire tables, 283 Hogarth, the line of beauty the curve, 168 Hoof foot, the, 176 Horseshoe-back Windsor chairs, 130, 257, 260 Incongruity of provincial cabinet-maker, 211 Inlaid work rarely employed, 55 Inlaid work with walnut, 169 Inlaid work, woods used, 169 Irish Chippendale, 272 Ironwork, miscellaneous, 287-313 Ironwork, Scottish, 277 Isle of Man tables, 283 Jacobean cradles, 148 Jacobean dressers with geometric panels, 121 Jacobean furniture, typical styles, 49 Jacobean oak chair, typical form, 196 Jacobean period, its characteristics, 95 Jacobean period, late styles of, 115 Jacobean style, its transition to William and Mary, 207 Jacobean Sussex firebacks, 299, 300 Joinery, the solidity of English, 51 Jones, R., of Old Ford, chintz printer, 337 Kettle trivet, the cottager's, 295 Lacquer employed in clock-cases, 312 Ladder-back chair, the, 233 Lancashire chintzes, 337 Lancashire dressers, 134 Lancashire furniture, 278 Lancashire Queen Anne settle, 167 Lancashire rush-bottom chair, 241 Legs-- "Barley sugar" turning illustrated, 105 Cabriole leg, introduction of the, 167 Egg and reel turning, 43; illustrated, 93 Eight legs (gate table), 99 Elizabethan bulbous leg, 60 Jacobean straight-turned leg, 60 Jacobean, various forms of turning, 89 Queen Anne cabriole leg, 129 Six legs, gate table, illustrated, 99 Split urn leg, illustrated, 91, 119 Straight leg again in vogue, 180 Urn-shaped leg, 60 Urn-shaped splat, 121; illustrated, 91, 119 Linen-fold pattern on chests, 32 Local types, 33 Local types of furniture, 267-284 London and the vicinity, chintz printed in, 322 Longleat, oak furniture at, 55 Lyngby (near Copenhagen), collection of old farmhouse furniture at, 41 Macaulay quoted, 158 Macaulay, "State of England in 1685" quoted, 76 Mahogany gate-leg tables, 103 Mahogany styles, their gracefulness, 179
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