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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 287

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;Sixteenth Centnry. (P.) 268 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Flemish and English furniture and carving were pretty-much alike in the reigns of Elizabeth—the Tudor period ofEnglish art—and of James I., the Stuart or J acabean. Thepieces of carved furniture, both Flemish and English, werevery solid and heavy both… … I-ig. 240.—Eli/alictlian Tahlc. (P.) blance to the former, that a great difficulty is experiencedin classifying examples of this period. The table, Fig. 240,and the so-called Great Bed of Ware, are examples ofthe furniture of the Elizabethan period (Fig. 241.) In Spain the Italian style in…

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