Roundabout Chairs
A style of chair very popular in the first half of the eighteenth century is the roundabout chair. Its popularity was probably due to its comfort, obtained from the curved back. It is constructed with one leg in front, and the other three legs carry through the seat to support the arms and back which are built on a curve. They are found in three styles, the transition, the Dutch, and the Chippendale. Figure 516 shows a form of chair known as a wheel chair, owing to the fact that the...
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762. Card-Table, 1725 50 223 763. Card-1 able, 1750 75 223 764. Pier-Table, marble top, 1750 75 224 765. Pole Screen, third quarter eighteenth century 225 766. Pole Screen, second quarter eighteenth 767. Dining-Table, about 1775 226 768. Dining-Table, last quarter eighteenth 769. Dining-Table, 1800 10 227 770. Dining-Table, 1800 20 228 771. Dinuig-Table, about 1810 228 772. Dii iog-Tah e, about 1820 229 773. Part of Dining-Table, about 1820 229 774. Card-Table, 1775-1800 230 775. Card-Table,...
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516. Cane-Back Wheel Chair, about 17CO 70 517. Roundabout Chair, 172a 30 70 518. Roundabout Chair, 1720- 30 71 519. Roundabout Chair with extension top, second quarter eighteenth century 71 520. Roundabout Chair, second quarter eighteenth century 71 521. Roundabout Chair, third quarter eighteenth century 72 522- Roundabout Chair, third quarter eighteenth century 72 523. Roundabout Chair, third quarter eighteenth century 73 524. Roundabout Chair with extension top, third quarter eighteenth...
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844. Wall or Mural Clock, about 1740 286 845. Tall Clock, about 1740 286 846. Musical Clock, Chippendale case, 1760 70 287 847. Dial of clock shown in, following figure 287 848. Tall Clock, japanned case, about 1770 288 84g. Tall Clock, mlaid case, last quarter eighteenth century 289 850. Burnap Clock, 1799 288 851. Tall Clock, about 1801 289 852. Miniature Tall Clock, about i8co 290 853. M-niature Tall Clock, about 1800 290 854. Tall Clock with painted face, about 1800 291 855. Advertisement n...
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680. Double Gate-Legged Table, last quarter seventeenth century 173 681. Double Gate-Legged Table, last quarter seventeenth century 174 6X2. Gate-Legged Table, last quarter seventeenth century 174 683. Gate-Legged Table, late seventeenth century 175 684. Gate-Legged Table wth Spanish feet, 1690-1700 176 6X5. Gate-Legged Table with Spanish feet, 169a 1700 177 686. Gate-Legged Table, late seventeenth century 177 687. Folding-Table, third quarter seventeenth century 178 688. Folding-Table, late...
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Wheel Chair about 402. Dining-Hall, Christ Church, 403. Joined Stool or Short Form, about 404. Turned Three-Legged Stool, early seventeenth century 6 405. Dutch Stool, about 406. Turned Three-Legged or Boffet Chair, sixteenth century 407. Turned Three-Legged or Boffet Chair, early sixteenth century 8 408. Turned Chair, late sixteenth and early seventeenth century 9 409. Turned Chair, Carver style, first quarter seventeenth century 9 410. Turned Chair, Carver style, about 1650 10 411. Turned...
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4.34. Child's Wainscot Chair, first quarter seventeenth century 22 435. Carved Oak Wainscot Chair, about 1650 23 436. Carved Oak Wainscot Chair, about 1650 23 437. Carved Oak Wamscot Chaii, 1650 75 24 438. Carved Oak Wainscot Chair, about 1650 24 439. Oak Wainscot Chair-Table, about 1650 25 44.0. Turned Wainscot Chair-Table, sbout 1700 26 44.1. Turned Wainscot Chair-Table, 1725-50 26 442. Leather Chaii, about 1650 27 443. Leather Chairs, about 1640 28 444. Leather Chair, about 1650 29 445....
Dutch Type Of Chairs
The new style, which we have seen foreshadowed in the preceding illustrations, was, from the structural point of view, a distinct advance in the evolution toward lightness. It seems strange that, a few years after the very elaborate carved cane chairs were in' vogue, the wheels of fashion should have turned to such simplicity. The chief characteristics of the style were the use of the cyma curve in the place of straight lines wherever possible and the introduction for the first time of the...
First Type Of Cane Chairs
The first type is a continuation and refinement of the earlier turned chairs, the earliest form being similar to Figure 447 except for a panel of cane in the back and seat. This simple form was quickly superseded by the new form of chair with high seats and backs with carved crestings and front stretchers. The spiral turning was probably retained for some time, and the carving at first was on the wood and not cut to form the outline. The construction of this type was good. The cresting was...
Second Type Of Cane Chairs
As has been stated above, the second type of cane chair consists of those in which the carved cresting extends over the stiles of the back. These are later than the first type, not having appeared much before 1685. The writer has never seen a specimen which had the simple Flemish scroll foot and only very rarely one which used that scroll n the design. They are occasionally found, however, with the elaborated scroll foot and the scroll foot shown on the chair illustrated in Figure 457. It is...
Slatback Turned Chairs
The second type of turned chair has a much longer history and is found late in the eighteenth century in fact, it probably suggested the so-called ladder backs to the cabinetmakers of the Chippendale school. One reason for its popularity over the spindle type was because a series of slats in the back are more comfortable than the spindles. We will trace the development of the slat-back turned chairs consecutively, although it will result in a disarrangement of the chronological order. Figure...
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598. Chair in Sheraton style, 1785-95 118 599. Chair n Sheraton style, 17901800 . 118 00. Chair in Sheraton style, 1785 -95 118 601. Chair in Sheraton style, 1785-95 119 602. Chair in Sheraton style, 1785-95 120 603. Chair in Sheraton style, 604. Red Lacquer Chaii gt n Sheraton style, about 1800 121 605. Painted Chaii Sheraton style, about 1N00 t gt o6. Painted Chair n Sheraton style, about 1800 120 607. L pholstered Chaii in Sheraton style, 1790 ixco 121 008. Upholstered Chaii In Sheraton...
Third Type Of Cane Chairs
The third type of cane chairs are those in which the stiles of the back are not turned, but moulded, and appear to carry in a continuous line over the top. In this type the stiles of the back are often the frame for the cane. A very fine example of this type is shown Wfl ab F fr . in Figure 475. It will be seen that the entire Bfl Kf S plkS space between the stiles of the back is filled with cane without any suggestion of a splat. g n ir, 4-- The cresting is cut in a design which is a mix- Cane...
Turned Spindleback Chair
The turned chairs were of simple construction. The rails were let into holes bored to receive them, mortised and tenoned, and were often held in place with draw-bore pins holding all the joints tight, thus giving the chair a solidity and strength which has resisted the ravages of time to such an extent that many specimens of the seventeenth-century chairs of this type are extant which are apparently as strong and sound in their joints as if made to-day. These chairs were made sometimes of oak...
Wainscot Chairs
I ne second style of chair found prior to 1650 is the oak chair known as the wainscot chaii. Ihe word wainscot is derived from the Dutch wagenschot, literally a wagon partition, referring to the best oak timber, well grained and without knots, such as was used in the best coaches of the period. These chairs were much more massively built than the turned chairs, the construction being the same as was found on the oak chests and cupboards of the period. I he backs were framed and panelled, and...