Kentish Pulpit Types
ALDINGTON, KENT. ALDINGTON, KENT. Details of Fig. 70. Font-cover about 1640. TYPES OF KENTISH WOODWORK. ALDINGTON, KENT. ALDINGTON, KENT. Details of Fig. 70. Font-cover about 1640. TYPES OF KENTISH WOODWORK.
Oak Chest With Iron Strapwork 1
6 ft. 4i ins, long by 2 ft. i in, high by I ft. 4 ins. back to front Fourteenth century. Capt. N. R. Colville, M.C. THE CHEST, FIG. 7, WITH LID OPEN, SHOWING THE DECORATIVE PAINTING. THE CHEST, FIG. 7, WITH LID OPEN, SHOWING THE DECORATIVE PAINTING. appearance of being a reconstruction. This type of chest persisted well beyond the fourteenth to the earl fifteenth century, as in Mr. Smedley Aston's example, Figs. 10 and ii, but here the top and the uprights are scratch-moulded, a sure indication...
Walnut Twotier Sideboard 1
Height, 3 ft. ii ins. width, 4 ft. 2 ins. depth, 1 ft. 6 ins. Late sixteenth century. Church is over-furnished, is original to that edifice. This pulpit is evidently made tip from old panelling. It is much more likely that it was removed from the ruined Aldington Priory, the refectory of which is now a part of the adjoining farm buildings. In the Church are fragments of screens both of late fourteenth and middle fifteenth-century dates, evidently from the same source. The present additional...
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J.E.S. and the date 1574 being carved on the cresting rail of the back, an honour shared only with the chest and the standing cupboard. The skirting to the base is a later addition. 1 ft. 10 ins. long by i ft. 10 ins. high by i ft. i in. deep. Early sixteenth centurj'. Late sixteenth century. Lord Amherst. Late sixteenth century. Lord Amherst. See next page for sizes. Barking Church, Suffolk. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE CHAIR, FIG. 219. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE CHAIR, FIG. 219. Floor to top of straight...
WALNUT ARMCHAIRS Lcp
Victoria and Albert Museum. Date about 1O70-S0. Bond's Hospital, Coventry. and enriched to accord with them. These two chairs from Belton, especially Fig. 302, show this ornate character in unmistakable fashion. Here we have the amorini not only in the back cresting and front stretcher, but also as terminals to the balusters of the back and as ornamental details on the front legs. Of these elaborate chairs, examples exist in many noted houses, as at Glemham Hall, for example, which show7 that...
Oak Table With Hinged Top 1
Early seventeenth century. Victoria and Albert Museum. Top, 2 ft. 4 ins. by i ft. 7 ins. 2 ft. 4 ins. high. Date about 1660. Top, 2 ft. 7 ins. by 1 ft. 9 ins. 2 ft. 2 ins. high. sixteenth century, although Fig. 149 is certainly a guardroom table, and of seventeenth-century date. This shuffleboard table from Astley Hall, Chorley, Lancashire, could be described at considerable length were not the illustrations given here almost self-explanatory. The game of shuffle-, or shovel-board, is one of...
The Hood Raised On Us Clickspring
Showing the rocketting catch which fastens the hood when the trunk door is closed. collection, are exquisite illustrations of this point. Nothing could be finer than the Knibb dial, Fig. 398. The hour and the seconds circles are of solid silver, the dial and its beautiful corner-pieces, water gilt. Both hour and minute hands are exceptionally beautiful even for this age of fine clock-making. The striking is on two bells of different tones, and the clock strikes in Roman numeral fashion, an...
The Suffolk Seventeenthcentury Type Of Arcaded Pulpit
The reintroduction of the split-baluster, c. 1680. The Kast Anglian arcaded type of 1670. The reintroduction of the split-baluster, c. 1680. The Kast Anglian arcaded type of 1670. TOWER CHURCH, IPSWICH. ATTLEBOR0UGH CHURCH, NORFOLK. The Wren type of 1C90-1700. The Wren type of 1700-10. LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EAST ANGLIAN PULPITS. The Renaissance of the South-West. Atout 1550. The Renaissance symbolical pulpit of 1550. A Gothic panel now in the back of a chair. Very rare in Kent. The...
Dole Cupboard Of Deal 1
Carved and inlaid. Height, 2 ft. width, 2 ft. 4 ins. depth, 9 ins. First half of the seventeenth century. were made, with open fronts partly filled in with turned balusters or spindles. They were intended either to be placed on a table, shelf or bracket, or to be fixed to the wall. Their probable use was to contain articles of food, for the keeping of which ventilation was necessary. Numbers of these cupboards are to be found in churches, as it was the custom, at this date, to distribute loaves...
Oak And Fruitwood Cabinet 1
Date about 1670. . W. Smedley Aston, Esq. Fig. 121. OAK INLAID CUPBOARD. OAK CHEST OF DRAWERS. Date about 1670. C. H. F. Kinderman, Esq. Fig. 121. OAK INLAID CUPBOARD. OAK CHEST OF DRAWERS. Date about 1670. C. H. F. Kinderman, Esq. It is true that many of the Frencli details were adopted at a much later date than their vogue on the other side of the Channel, but they were rendered, in almost every instance with considerable fidelity. With Fig. 115 we revert to East Anglia again, and the years...
Oak Court Cupboard
Middle seventeenth century. C. II. 1 . Kinderman, Ksq. Date about 1680-90. C. H. F. Kinderman, Esq. Date about 1680-90. C. H. F. Kinderman, Esq. Date about 1660-70. Messrs. Gregory and Co. Date about 1660-70. Messrs. Gregory and Co. section, with free versions of the carved triglyph below. The lock is a later addition. Fig. 99 is difficult to date, although it is undoubtedly from the first half of the seventeenth century. It is veneered, with the motto, Sic transit gloria mundi, inlaid in the...
Types Of Baluster Turning Of The Seventeenth And Early Eighteenth Centuries 1
been illustrated. The diagram, Fig. 180, mal be of some little service in tracing this evolution of the turned leg on seventeenth-century tables. A writer of an illustrated book, such as this, who has many photographs before him, a far greater number than it is possible to reproduce in a work of this size, has still the advantage over his readers of being able to trace developments from example to example, which, although evident to him on comparison, cannot be stated other than empirically...
Oak Chest Nlaid With Marqueterie And Parqueterie Of Various Woods 1
4 ft. i ins. wiie by 2 ft. 2 ins. high by i ft. 9J ins. deep. Late sixteenth Century. A. W. Frost, Esq. are nearly always more spontaneous in type an artistic virtue, which, however commendable for many reasons, has the drawback of establishing no definite manner such as would render accurate dating possible, in the absence of preserved records. As a criterion of periods, or methods prevalent in their districts, these Devonshire pulpits are useless as guides in estimating dates, or in...
Walnut Easy Chair 1
The cup-turned leg of 1650-5 combined with the decorated stretcher of the later vice to this bestial level, must have been rare, if not almost unknown, can be imagined. It must not be supposed that the actual furniture which was made was crude. We have seen that this is far from being the fact. Rich carving or inlay was general, and gorgeous covering fabrics by no means unusual, but floors strewn with rushes, and littered with the debris of meals' thrown to the dogs of the household, rarely...
Chest Of Drawers On Stand
Veneered with walnut and inlaid with marqucterie. The columnar legs with briquetted shafts are exceptional. effect. An alternative was to cut the bandings directly across the veneer leaf, a method for which the term cross-banding has been coined. The chest, Fig. 357, which has the appearance of having lost its under stage of legs and stretcher, is veneered with transverse sections of olive and lignum, with a geometrical inlay of box-wood stringing or lines. These lines are gauged to an even...
Sixteenthcentury Oak Chest With Panel Of Earlier Date 1
manner of the mid-fifteenth-centurv great windows, and there is no trace of the cusping which is so marked on the next example, Fig. 19, a chest from the Lady Chapel of St. Michael's Parish Church at Coventry. This is a typical late fifteenth-century Church muniment or vestment chest of large size and great weight. The ends are closely frame-braced over solid sides, and the front with its uprights is richly ornamented. Here again, it will be noticed that the front panel only is ecclesiastical...
OAK TABLE WITH HINGED TOPS Sqn
Top, 3 ft. 9 ins. by 3 ft. 3 ins. 2 ft. 3 ins. high. Date about 1660-70. H. Clifford Smith, Esq. fitted with a central door, behind which is a cupboard, probably intended to contain silver or pewter. Fig. 165 is smaller, and has the true vase-baluster leg of the later period of James II. This is, however, still a Cromwellian piece. It has the folding hinged top supported on the pull-out back leg in the maimer of this date. These tables with double tops, pave the way, in the progression of...
Yew And Fruitwood Chair 1
dividers, one point having a cutting edge. The general style of this piece suggests the Xorth Riding of Yorkshire. Fig. 254 shows the Commonwealth simplicity carried into the early Restoration years, the vase-shaped balusters suggesting this date. The top is constructed of six boards, fixed to the heavy runners. It was probably rectangular in form, originally, and was cut to its present circular shape at a considerably later date. The detail of the uniting of the front and back legs with turned...
Chest Of Drawers On Stand 1
Veneered with walnut and inlaid with marqueterie. Date about 1630. Victoria and Albert Museum. after, and when it is remembered that oak furniture, as we have seen, was being extensively produced at this period, it is difficult to understand the fashion for the sombre oak running concurrently with this gaudy inlay, other than on the hypothesis that the latter had to be imported from the other side of the Xorth Sea, and therefore was not available to the same degree. The inlay here, apart from...
Oak Trestle Table Of Light Type
7 ft. long by 2 ft. 3 ins. deep by 2 ft. 6 ins. high. Early sixteenth century. Lord Cowdray. Originally 20 ft. long by 2 ft. 7 ins. deep by 2 ft. 10 ins. high. Top 4 ins. thick. Originally 20 ft. long by 2 ft. 7 ins. deep by 2 ft. 10 ins. high. Top 4 ins. thick. as chests, is possible, as the seats may have been low stools. We know that chairs were not used for this purpose. In the development of table-types, we are compelled to begin with those of trestle form, such as Fig. 125, and to assume...
The Development of the English Oak Chair
T has already been stated at the outset of this book, that chairs, with their kindred pieces, settees, stools, forms or benches, occupy a place apart from other furniture, for the various reasons given in that introductory chapter. While this isolated character of the English chair has been thus insisted upon, the statement is true only of its later development, that is, when it becomes a chair in such a form that it cannot be styled by any other name. Actually, the progenitor of the chair is...
Example Of A Onehanded Square Dial Clock Of Late Period 1
Fig. 392. EDUARDUS EAST, L0ND1N1. 9-in. Dial of 8-day Striking Clock. Date about 1665. Fig. 392. EDUARDUS EAST, L0ND1N1. 9-in. Dial of 8-day Striking Clock. Date about 1665. are attached, and the winding key turns these squares and the barrels at the same time, thus coiling the gut lines and lifting the weights. The barrels are cogged, and a spring-ratchet allows the barrel to turn the one way only, thus preventing the line from running down with its weight when the winding-key is removed. The...
Oak Muniment Or Vestment Chest 1
Lady Chapel, St. Michael's Church, Coventry. 6 ft. 5 ins. long by 3 ft. 2 ins. high by 2 ft. 3 ins. back to front. Fifteenth century. iS mannered duplication which is evident in much of the secular woodwork or furniture of this period, both in this country and in France. Fig. 25 is one of the small secular chests of the beginning of the sixteenth century, constructed of oak with a front and top of elm. The two roundels are chip-carved in the late Gothic manner. The cutting is rough, as one...
An Example Of The Dial And Movement Of An Elaborate Longcase Musical Clock 1
its many virtues are not apparent at a first glance. m a ns h i p untouched by the clock-jobber. The hour ring has been re-silvered and the numerals re-waxed, and that is all. The hands are beautifully pierced and carved, and the cherub - headed corner-pieces are wellmodelled and chased. There is no seconds dial, although the pendulum is of seconds' length. The winding-holes are wide apart, -due to the unusual planting of the trains, which give a refined appearance to the dial. The hour ring is...
Drawtable Of Elm And Ash 1
Sizes closed 7 ft. long by 2 ft. 9 ins. deep by 2 ft. 9 ins. high. Dated 1630. Capt. N. R. Colville, U.C. has the Tudor rose pierced and carved, and the fifth suggests that this table cannot be earlier than the first years of the sixteenth century. It is of unusually high quality, both in design and cutting, which is also some indication that it is early in the century. Fig. 131 is the secular version of the same form of table, of rougher make and later date. The oak front is cut from the log...
Oak Chest Inlaid With Marqueterie And Parqueterie Of Various Woods
3 ft. ii ins. wide by 2 ft. 6i ins. high by 1 ft. Si ins. deep. Late sixteenth century. W. Smedley Aston, Esq. also very rare. There is one at Upper Winchendon in Bucks, and two are known in Gloucester, at Evenlode and Stanton. It is, however, from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards, that pulpits begin to have an interest, for our present purpose, in establishing local manners and periods, as they either copy the pattern of the chest, coffer and cupboard-fronts of their time, or...
Walnut Single And Armchair 1
padded cushions on seat and back, could hardly7 have been used at all for the purpose which their name implies. They are rare pieces, at the present day, but this scarcity may be due to one or two causes, or possibly7 to both. They could not have been made in the same numbers as the chairs which they7 copy7, for reasons which are obvious, and the constructional defects inherent in a couch designed in this manner must have been responsible for frequent breakages A type which bridges the Jacobean...
Arabesque Marqueterie Of Dark Wood On Light Ground
Collection of D. A. F. Wetherfield, Esq. veneered with English walnut of good figure. The hood has the Tompion type of cresting refer to Fig. 397 centred with a turned ball. been specially illustrated as an example of akind and quality7 for which the clock-collector should seek. In good condition, with the base intact, and the works nottamperedvith. 100 to i25would be a reasonable price to pay. The collector should, however, seek for exceptional peculiarities, such as dials with the hour circle...
Putting Marqueterie Together 1
and dipped into a bowl or pan containing very hot silver sand. The usual plan is to have a flat iron tray filled with the sand and placed over a small gas-ring. The corners only of the pieces are dipped, as where the wood touches the sand it burns to a deep brown, and from this point shades away, gradually, into the colour of the wood itself. It is obvious that only light-coloured woods can be shaded in this manner. The laying of the marqueterie veneer is the work of the cabinet-maker, not of...
Chapter I
The Development of the Chest and Standing Cupboard. HE chest or coffer was a most important article of furniture, especially during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, both in houses and monastic establishments. Some idea has already been given of the wealth, in carved and decorated woodwork, which must have been general even in small parish churches, until the first quarter of the sixteenth century. Enough has persisted to our day to give some vague idea of the amount and richness which...