XVI Oak day beds 24 XVII Stuart chairs 25 XVIII Marquetry cabinet about 1700 28 XIX Walnut cabinet 29 XX Stuart settee with carving. Second half of XVII Century 42 XXI Charles II chairs in varying styles in carving 43 XXII Walnut sofa 44 XXIII Gilt mirror, time of Charles II 45 XXIV Interesting chair transitional between Stuart Styles and William and Mary 48 XXV Chairs in variants of William and Mary 49 XXVI Chest of drawers in burr walnut veneer 50 XXVII Small walnut table 51 XXVIII Carved chairs. Period of William and Mary 52 XXIX Walnut chairs, William and Mary 53 XXX Queen Anne single chair. Queen Anne arm chair. Walnut Queen Anne chairs 54 XXXI Queen Anne chair 55 JACOBEAN FURNITURE CHAPTER I EARLY JACOBEAN STYLES JAMES I CROWNED 1603 When a passion for collecting antique furniture first swept America, and prizes were plucked from attics, cellars and old barns, the eagle eye of the amateur sought only those fine pieces that were made in the age of mahogany and satin-wood. Every piece was dubbed Colonial with rash generalisation until the time when a little erudition apportioned the well-made distinctive furniture to its proper classes. Then every person of culture became expert on eighteenth century furniture, and the names of Chippendale and his prolific mates fell glibly from all lips. That much accomplished, the collector and home-maker then threw an intelligent eye on another page of history and realised that the seventeenth century and certain bits of oak and walnut that had stood neglected, belonged to an equally interesting period of America's social development. All at once the word Jacobean was on every tongue, as Colonial had been before. Attics, cellars and barns were searched again, this time for oak and walnut, not mahogany, and for heavy square construction, not for bandy legs and delicate restraint. It was the marvellous carved chest that first announced itself, and then a six-legged highboy, and the lower part of a thousand-legged table--which now we call a gate. These, we said with inspiration, are the gods of the first settlers; mahogany is but modern stuff.