Claw-and-ball feet adopted by Chippendale, 216 ---- feet (prior to Chippendale), 146 ---- foot, introduction of, 127 Clock, "Grandfather," introduction of, 127 Clocks, "Grandfather," 147 Colbert, the guiding spirit of art under Louis XIV., 159 Collectors, hints to, 259-274 Commode, _see_ GLOSSARY, 24 Commodes (illustrated), Cressent, 171; Louis XIV., 173; Caffieri, 175; Riesener, 197 _Contre partie_, _see_ GLOSSARY, 24 Copeland, designs of, 247 Copies of old furniture, 259, 263 ---- of fine French pieces, 185, 197 Cottage furniture (Chippendale style), 232 Counter-boule, _see_ GLOSSARY, 24 -----boule, 161 Court cupboard, 70 Cowley, quotation from, 85 Cradle, with initials and date, 96 Cressent, Charles, 177, 178 Crispin de Passe, chair designed by, 159 Cromwellian chair, 96 Cromwell's ebony cabinet, 96 Cushions for chairs when adopted, 75 D Darly, 248 Dated pieces-- 1593, Elizabethan bedstead, 66 1603, Mirror, carved oak frame, 71 1603, Court cupboard, 73 1616, Oak table, 85 1623, Chair, 97 1641, Cradle, 96 1642, Chair, 159 1653, Cabinet, _frontispiece_ 1760-69, "Bureau du roi," 185 1769, Bureau, 196 1810, Jewel cabinet, 207 David, 195, 208, 209 Derbyshire chairs, 103 Diderot, 205 _Director_, designs of chair-backs from, 222, 225 Drake, Sir Francis, chair made from timber of _Golden Hind_, 82 Drawers, chests of, Jacobean, 117 Dressers, Normandy, 103 ---- "Welsh," 100 Dublin Museum, illustration of oak chest at, 44 Dutch art, introduction of, by William of Orange, 124 ---- house, interior of (illustrated), 111 ---- lacquer work, 151 ---- marquetry, 128, 146 ---- marquetry chair, illustrated, 143 ---- marquetry, prices realised at auction, 132 E Eassie, Walter, illustrations from drawings by, 171, 183 Egyptian design, influence of, 247 Eighteenth century, early, well-constructed furniture of, 145 ---- interior of room (illustrated), 235 Elizabethan mansions, some noteworthy, 67 Elizabethan woodwork, fine example of, 65 Empire style furniture, 202-210 ---- its influence on English makers, 209 England, Renaissance in, 37, 59-78 F Farmhouse furniture, 100 Figure in wood, how obtained, 76, 118 Fire of London, destruction of furniture by, 120 First Empire style, 203-210 Flemish wood-carving, its influence on English craftsmen, 49 Fontainebleau, illustration of jewel cabinet at, 207 Foreign workmen employed in England, 37 Fragonard, 182, 195 France, Renaissance in, 43 Francis I., patron of the new art, 47 Frauds perpetrated on collectors, 259-274 French polish, _see_ GLOSSARY, 24, 236 French Revolution, vandalism during, 204 G Gate-leg table, _see_ GLOSSARY, 24 ---- table, 95 Gibbons, Grinling, work of, 121 Gillow, 248 _Golden Hind_, chair made from timbers of, 82 Goldsmith, Oliver, chair of, 215, 216 Gothic, _see_ GLOSSARY, 25 ---- revival, its influence on Chippendale, 221 Gouthiere, Pierre, 191, 192, 197