The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods (1914)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879- · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 153
l Chippendale styles re-vived it. Early Queen Anne cabriole legs sometimeshad hoof feet (Fig. 4, 7, Chap. Ill), solid or cloven,and occasionally Spanish scroll feet (Fig. 4, G, Chap.Ill), the latter form occurring especially in early NewEngland chairs of the period, with straight turned legs.The… … Fig. 5. Typical Shapes of Queen Anne Chair-seats. web foot (Fig. 8, A) occurs at this time. The commonmotif of carved decoration for the cabriole knee wasthe cockle shell, except in the cases noted in the in-troduction to this chapter. Back legs were either quad-rangular or rounded. Seats varied in…
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