Cottage furniture and earthenware compared, 31 Country cabinet-maker, his mixture of styles, 211 Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, 221 Country furniture, its sturdy independence, 24 Country makers little influenced by contemporary fashion, 50 Cradles, 148 Cromwellian chests with drawers, 52 Crusie, the Scottish, 277, 293 Cupboard, the bacon, 154 Cupboard, Welsh carving, 277 Cupboards, corner, introduction of, 162 Cupboards and drawers, taste for, 125 "Cupid's bow" underframing, 107, 185 "Cupid's bow" top rail of chair, 218 Cushions, their use with chairs, 199, 207 Delany, Mrs., quoted, 153 Denmark, the conservation of old farmhouse furniture in, 38 Derbyshire chairs, 203 Design books, eighteenth-century, publication of, 222 _Director_, by Chippendale, a working guide, 223 Drawer accommodation a feature in late dressers, 130 Drawers, chests of, 60 Drawers, chests of, Charles II. period, 62 Drawers, chests of, Queen Anne style, 67 Dresser and clock combined, 129 Dressers, farmhouse, 115-135 Dressers-- Brittany, 134 Lancashire, 134 Normandy, 134 Welsh, 133 Dutch artisans print early English chintzes, 321 Dutch influence early eighteenth century, 168, 170 Earthenware and cottage furniture compared, 31 Eighteenth-century dressers, 130 Eighteenth-century pleasure gardens, 249 Eighteenth-century styles, 157-187 Elizabethan turned chairs, 37 English chintzes, old, 317-341 English farmhouse furniture, desirability of its preservation, 42 English joiners' work, its solidity, 51 Essex tables, 283 Exotic bird patterns in chintzes, 333 "Farmer's Boy" (Robert Bloomfield) quoted, 268 Farmhouse furniture (English), desirability of its preservation, 42 Farmhouse furniture influenced by walnut styles, 208 Farmhouse styles contemporary with the cane-back chair, 208 Feet-- Arcaded foot, Charles II. period, 62 Ball, 62; illustrated, 65 Claw-and-ball foot, introduction of the, 162 Club foot, its introduction, 162 Hoof foot, the, 176 Scroll or Spanish foot, 104, 203 Spanish foot, the, 104, 203 Spanish foot, in corrupted form, illustrated, 105, 109 Trestle, in Gothic style, 90 Fiddle splat chairs, introduction of, 162 Fiddle splat, Queen Anne style, 217 Fiddle splat Windsor chair at its best, 254 "Fiddle-string" backs, 249 Firebacks, Sussex, 296 Firebacks, Sussex, fine examples exhibited, 305 Firedogs, cottage and farmhouse, 294 Food of country population, seventeenth century, 81 Foreign styles, slow assimilation of, 67 French artisans print early English chintzes, 321 Gate-leg tables, 85-112 Gate-leg table, double gates, 96; illustrated, 93
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