_Dictionnaire Raisonne._ M. Viollet-le-Duc. 1858-75. 6 vols. Worth L10. French Furniture. Lady Dilke. Bell. 1901. French Eighteenth Century Furniture, Handbook to the. Jones Collection Catalogue. 1881. French Eighteenth Century Furniture, Handbook to the. Wallace Collection Catalogue. 1904. History of Furniture. A. Jacquemart. Chapman. 1878. 31s. 6d. Issued in Paris in 1876, under the title _Histoire du Mobilier_. _Le Meuble en France au XVI Siecle._ E. Bonnaffe. Paris. 1887. Worth 10s. JAPANESE.--Lacquer Industry of Japan. Report of Her Majesty's Acting-Consul at Hakodate. J. J. Quin. Parliamentary Paper. 8vo. London. 1882. SCOTTISH.--Scottish Woodwork of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. J. W. Small. Waterston. 1878. L4 4s. SPANISH.--Spanish and Portuguese. Catalogue of Special Loan Exhibition of Spanish and Portuguese Ornamental Art. 1881. GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED _Armoire._--A large cupboard of French design of the dimensions of the modern wardrobe. In the days of Louis XIV. these pieces were made in magnificent style. The Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum has several fine examples. (See illustration, p. 165.) _Baroque._--Used in connection with over ornate and incongruous decoration as in _rococo_ style. _Bombe._--A term applied to pieces of furniture which swell out at the sides. _Boule._--A special form of marquetry of brass and tortoiseshell perfected by Andre Charles Boule in the reign of Louis XIV. (See Chapter VI., where specimens of this kind of work are illustrated.) The name has been corrupted into a trade term _Buhl_, to denote this style of marquetry. Boule or _Premiere partie_ is a metal inlay, usually brass, applied to a tortoiseshell background. See also _Counter-boule_. _Bureau._--A cabinet with drawers, and having a drop-down front for use as a writing-table. Bureaux are of many forms. (See illustration, p. 231.) _Cabriole._--Used in connection with the legs of tables and chairs which are curved in form, having a sudden arch outwards from the seat. (See illustration, p. 143.) _Caryatides._--Carved female figures applied to columns in Greek architecture, as at the Erectheum at Athens. They were employed by woodcarvers, and largely introduced into Renaissance furniture of an architectural character. Elizabethan craftsmen were especially fond of their use as terminals, and in the florid decoration of elaborate furniture. _Cassone._--An Italian marriage coffer. In Chapter I. will be found a full description of these _cassoni_. _Commode._--A chest of drawers of French style. In the chapters dealing with the styles of Louis XIV., Louis XV., and Louis XVI., these are fully described and illustrations are given.