Period furnishings; an encyclopedia of historic furniture, decorations and furnishings (1911)
Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 124
hteenth Century. The Renaissance feet were sometimes squareblocks, discs or balls in flattened form. Frequentlythe legs rested upon parallel bars. Various animal-feet were generally used by theGreeks and Romans and we therefore find them to-gether with scroll feet in good Renaissance examples.They… … The Oriental motif from which Elizabethan and Jacobean embroidering took inspiration. [Ill] ENGLISH RENAISSANCE from the Queen Annestyles by the front, backand side stretchers thatconnect them near thebase. The claw-and-ballfoot was distinctly QueenAnne, but the form camethrough Louis XIV andlate…
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