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The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)

Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 272

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FACSIMILE SKETCHES OFPANELS BY INIGO JOKES. One does well, when desirous to speak conciselyof the furniture in vogue from 1603 to 1688, todescribe it as Jacobean if made during the reignsof James i. and Charles i. ; Commonwealth orCromwelUan, if of the days of the Lord Protector;and Carolean, or… … three periods is almost as radically dissimilar as were the rulers whose names are used as style-labels to the pieces. A right-royally upholstered chair of early Jacobean days bears as much resemblance to a leathern Commonwealth chair as did James i. to the only Cromwell who counted in seventeenth…

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