Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for CollectorsHayden, Arthur
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Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors
Hayden, Arthur
Collectors and collecting; Furniture -- History
Anne, Queen, furniture of, prices realised at auction, 153
---- insularity of furniture in reign of, 136
---- well-constructed furniture of period of, 145
Apsley House, collection of furniture at, 209
Armoire, _see_ GLOSSARY, 23
Ascham, quotation from, 68
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, chair at, 115
B
Baroque, _see_ GLOSSARY, 23
Barrow, Sam, name of maker, on Queen Anne clock, 148
Battersea enamel, its use on furniture, 252
Berain, Jean, 162
Blenheim, chair from, 222
Bodleian Library, Oxford, illustration of chair at, 82
_Bombe_, _see_ GLOSSARY, 23
Bookcase by Chippendale, 225, 231
Boucher, 182, 195
Boule, Andre Charles, and his marquetry, 160-162
---- cabinet (illustrated), 165
---- _see_ GLOSSARY, 23
---- and counter-boule (illustrated), showing difference between, 163
Bridal chest (German), 43
Bromley-by-Bow, "Old Palace," oak panelling from, 65
Brown and Bool, Messrs., specimens from collection of, 141, 150
Buhl work, 160
Bureau, _see_ GLOSSARY, 24
Burr-walnut panels, 139
Butter-cupboard, 104
C
Cabinet, ebony, formerly property of Oliver Cromwell, 99
Cabriole, _see_ GLOSSARY, 24
Cabriole-leg, introduction of into England, 127
Caffieri, 177, 191
Cambridge, King's College Chapel, woodwork of, 63
Cane seats and backs of chairs, adoption of, 117
---- work in chairs, later development of, 122
Carolean, _see_ GLOSSARY, 25
Carving supplanted by cane-work panels, 117
Caryatides, _see_ GLOSSARY, 24
_Cassette_, (strong box) of period of Louis XIV., 158
_Cassone_, _see_ GLOSSARY, 24
---- (marriage coffer), the Italian, 42
Catherine of Braganza, fashions introduced by, 114
Cecil, Lord Burleigh, quotation from, 66
Chair, Charles I., 93, 95
---- Chippendale, 223, 224, 226, 227, 232, 233
---- "Cromwellian," 96
---- high-backed, Portuguese, 114
---- Italian (1620), 94
---- Jacobean, made from timber of Drake's _Golden Hind_, 83
---- James I., 87, 89
---- James II., 123
---- Louis XIII. period, 159
---- ribbon-back, 222, 223
---- Oliver Goldsmith's, 215
---- with arms of first Earl of Strafford, 93
Chairs, test as to age of, 100
---- types of Jacobean (illustrated), 97, 100, 105, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124
---- types of Queen Anne period (illustrated), 143
---- upholstered, adopted in late Elizabethan days, 75
Chambers, Sir William, 216
Chardin, picture by, showing ladder-back chair, 245
Charles I. furniture, prices realised at auction, 106
---- II. furniture, prices realised at auction, 129
---- II., repartee of, 114
Charterhouse, specimen at, illustration of, 227
Chatsworth, work of Grinling Gibbons at, 121
Chests of drawers, Jacobean, 117
China collecting, influence of, on furniture, 127
Chinese and Japanese cabinets, 148
"Chinese" Chippendale, 213, 221
Chippendale, Thomas, and his style, 213-238;
his _Director_, 215
---- bureau-bookcase, 225, 231
---- furniture, tricks concerning, 272;
prices of, 227, 236
Cipriani, 249
Classic models paramount, 205
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