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 250
l motifs of the Queen Anne-Early Georgianstyle. Claw and Ball, feet were habitually used on muchof the furniture of this date. Acanthus of a peculiarly graceful type was freelyemployed in both the English and French types of theChippendale period. French Shells were frequently used in the French… … CHIPPENDALE 181 Gothic Pointed Arches and Quatrefodls were the essentialelements on which the Gothic type of decoration wasbased. STRUCTURE Chippendales furniture is structurally honest. Itis not only apparently strong but is actually so. Other-wise so much of it could not have remained to the…
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