Illustrations
I The small Jacobean room of elegance V Early Jacobean chest of carved oak 7 VI Oak chest with drawers 8 VII Oak stand and marquetry cabinet 9 VIII Gate-leg table, forming console with gate X Oak chest of drawers 12 XI Early Jacobean cabinet 13 XIII Spiral turned chair, characteristic of first half XIV Oak cabinet, dated 1653 20 XV Oak gate-leg dining table 21 XVIII Marquetry cabinet about 1700 . 28 XX Stuart settee with carving. Second half of Charles II chairs in varying styles in carving 43...
James I Crowned
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...
Jacobean Styles To Charles Ii
BRUTALLY natural we may call the earlier characters in English history, but attached to the Stuart name there is always poetic romance. And without romance what would our lives be So when we sit in our loved library or dining-room at home, embellished by a few bits of furniture such as the Stuarts lived among, those bits are like consolidated stories, things to dream about in the hours of ease. James I and his son Charles cared about things they lived with, and cared, too, about giving them as...
William And Mary
HE style named for William and Mary em braces all the changes that occurred from late Carolean days until the time of Anne, and even includes some of the models and details that are given the name of that queen. Dutch influence comes largely into both, but was stronger in the style known as Queen Anne's. Mixed up with other influences were those not only of Holland but of the countries with which her political life was concerned. Spain contributed certain details, and as for the Dutch...
Walnut Queen Anne Chairs
With carbriole leg and claw and ball foot adapted from Chinese Spanish leather set on with innumerable nails elegantly covers the taller. These chair foreshadow the Georgian stylet Plate XXXI QUEEN ANNE CHAIR With marquetry back and carved cabriole leg with hoof and serpentine stretcher Courtesy of P. W. French to form its own styles, to dress its homes and palaces in a British way, regardless of what the world elsewhere was doing. Bits of outside product came drifting across the Channel, but...
Carolean Styles Or The Restoration
IF it was to the Queen of Charles II that the Carolean period of furniture owed its Portuguese strain and the evidence of strange things from the East, it was from a woman of quite another sort that the predominating influence came. French styles were the vogue at court, not because the Queen, poor dull woman, wished it, but because Louise de Querouailles was the strong influence, and with her advent came follies and fashions enough to please the light side of one of the lightest of mon-archs....