Cane-back chair, its influence on farmhouse styles, 208 Caning in chairs out of fashion, 162 Chairs-- America, Windsor chair, types of, 246 Back, the, its development, 203 Caned-back chair, its influence on farmhouse styles, 208 Caned chairs, late Stuart, 199, 203, 207 Caning out of fashion, 162 Charles II. period styles, 211 Chippendale styles, 179 Chippendale, Windsor styles, 254 Corner chairs, 240 Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, 221 Cupid's bow top rail, 218 Cushions, their use with, 199, 207 Derbyshire chairs, 203 Elizabethan turned chairs, 37 Evolution of the chair, 189-241 Fiddle splat chairs, introduction of, 162 Fiddle splat, Queen Anne style, 217 Fiddle splat, Windsor, at its best, 254 "Fiddle-string" backs, 249 Goldsmith, Oliver, his chair, 253 Grandfather variety, 168, 230 Hepplewhite country styles, 221 Hepplewhite Windsor chairs, 254 Horseshoe back, Windsor, 259, 260 Jacobean, typical form, 196 Ladder-back chairs, 233 Lancashire rush-bottom chairs, 241 Lancashire spindle back chairs, 278 Modern office-chair, derivation of, 260 Prince of Wales's feathers in back, 227 Ribbon-back, introduction of, 179 Rush-bottomed chairs, 233 Shell ornament employed, 167 Sheraton country styles, 221 Sheraton Windsor chairs, 259, 260 Spindle-back chairs, 234 Splat, Queen Anne, the, 217 Straight-backed chairs, 203 Stretcher, evolution of the, 200 Tavern chairs, 249 Wheel-back Windsor chairs, 259 Woods used, Windsor chairs, 249, 250 Charles II. chests of drawers, 62 Charles II. period, impetus given to furniture design, 95 Charles II. period, styles of chairs, 211 Chests, Gothic, 34 Chests, sixteenth century, 34 Chests, Welsh carving, 277 Chests of drawers, 60 Chests of drawers, Charles II. period, 62 Chests of drawers, Queen Anne style, 67 Children's stools, Jacobean, illustrated, 77 Chimney crane, the, 294 China and glass cupboards, 180 Chinese designs in chintzes, 333 Chinese style of Chippendale, 227 Chintz printing becomes a national industry, 321 Chintzes, old English, 317-341 Chippendale and his contemporaries, 180 Chippendale clock cases, 312 Chippendale quoted, 227, 228 Chippendale, ribbon designs of, 179 Chippendale style, provincial, 221 Chippendale style Windsor chairs, 254 Chocolate houses, polemic against, 170 Chronology, seventeenth-century, 45-48 Claw-and-ball foot, introduction of, 162 Clock and dresser combined, 129 Clocks, grandfather, 306 Club foot, introduction of, 162 Cobbett, William, quoted, 67 Coffee-drinking and coffee-houses, 170 Coffee, women's petition against, 170 Corner chairs, 240
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