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A practical guide for collectors that surveys the development of domestic furniture from continental Renaissance forms through successive English and French styles, and on to recognized English designers. The text combines historical overview, detailed descriptions of construction, ornament and marquetry, and numerous illustrated examples drawn from national and private collections. It compares cross‑channel and continental influences, provides a glossary of technical terms, a bibliography, auction prices and museum references, and closes with practical hints for identification, preservation and buying to assist both novices and seasoned collectors.

N

  • Naples Museum, illustration of table at, 205
  • Napoleon, his influence on art, 208
  • Natoire, 182, 195
  • Needlework decorated cabinet, Charles II. period, 112
  • Netherlands, Renaissance in, 49
  • Netscher, Caspar, illustration after picture by, 111
  • Normandy dressers, 103
  • Notable examples of sixteenth, century English woodwork, 65

O

  • Oak, collectors of, hints to, 103, 118
  • —— furniture, the collector's polish for, 118
  • —— period, 34
  • —— polish, see Glossary, 26
  • Oeben, Jean François, 178
  • Old oak, polish for, 118

P

  • Parquetry, see Glossary, 26
  • Passe Crispin de, chair designed by, 159
  • Pater, 192
  • Penshurst Place, Indo-Portuguese furniture at, 115
  • Petworth House, work of Grinling Gibbons at, 121
  • Polish, French, 24; oil, 26
  • Pollen, J., Hungerford, quotation from, 196
  • Pompeii, influence of excavations at, 204, 208, 247
  • Ponsonby-Fane, Right Hon. Sir Spencer, specimens in collection of, 101, 224
  • Portuguese furniture, late seventeenth century, in England, 114

Q

  • Queen Anne cabinet (illustrated), 141
  • —— chairs (illustrated), 143
  • —— furniture, prices realised at auction, 153
  • —— mirror frame (illustrated), 137
  • —— settle (illustrated), 149, 155

R

  • Raleigh, Sir Walter, mahogany first brought home by, 214
  • Récamier, portrait of, by David, 209
  • Reeded, see Glossary, 27
  • Renaissance, see Glossary, 27
  • —— in England, 37, 59-78
  • —— in France, 43
  • —— in Italy, 41
  • —— in the Netherlands, 49
  • —— in Spain, 48
  • —— on the Continent, 33-55
  • —— origin of, 38, 41
  • Restored, see Glossary, 27
  • —— cupboard showing over-elaboration, 73
  • "Restored" pieces, 265
  • Revolution in France, vandalism during, 204
  • Ribbon-back chair (illustrated), 222
  • —— ornamentation adapted from France, 64; (illustrated) 60
  • —— pattern, early use of, by French woodcarvers, 92
  • Riesener, Jean François, 185, 191, 192, 195, 197, 208
  • Robinson, V. J., Esq., C.I.E., furniture belonging to, 219
  • Rococo, see Glossary, 27
  • Roe, Mr. Frederick, quotation from, 266
  • Roentgen, David, 182

S

  • Sackville, Lord, early Jacobean furniture in collection of, 86
  • St. Paul's Cathedral, work of Grinling Gibbons at, 121
  • Secret drawers, 114
  • —— drawers, pieces with, 113, 157, 231
  • —— drawers, Sheraton's love of, 251
  • —— processes to impart age to spurious pieces, 260
  • Settee, see Glossary, 27
  • —— upholstered, early Jacobean, at Knole, 90
  • Settle, see Glossary, 28, 60
  • —— Queen Anne style, 145, 149
  • Sèvres porcelain as decoration to furniture, 191
  • —— porcelain in harmony with furniture, 181
  • Shattock, Esq., T. Foster, specimens from collection of, 45
  • Shearer, 248
  • Sheraton, Thomas, and his style, 209, 241-256
  • —— chair (illustrated), 243
  • —— mechanical contrivances of his furniture, 251
  • —— poverty of, 248;
  • his opinion of Chippendale, 248
  • Sigerson, Dr., Dublin, specimens from collection of, 157, 206
  • Sixteenth-century woodwork, fine example of, 65
  • Spain, Renaissance in, 48
  • Spanish furniture (illustrated), cabinet, 51; chest, 52
  • Spitalfields' velvet for furniture, 147
  • —— weaving founded by aliens, 122
  • Splat, see Glossary, 28
  • Stothard, copy of engraving by, 231, 235
  • Strafford, first Earl of, chair with arms of, 94
  • Strapwork, see Glossary, 28
  • —— borrowed from Flemish designers, 64; illustrated, 61, 68
  • —— Elizabethan, 69
  • Stretche, Esq., T. E. Price, specimens from collection of, 75, 78, 97, 139, 140
  • Stretcher, see Glossary, 28
  • —— in chairs, evolution of the, 122
  • —— wear given to, by feet of sitters, 100
  • Sutton, Thomas, founder of Charterhouse Hospital, 86
  • Symonds, John Addington, "The Renaissance in Italy," quoted, 41

T

  • Table, gate-leg, see Glossary, 24
  • Tapestry factory established at Mortlake, 92
  • —— in harmony with furniture, 181
  • Tenon, see Glossary, 28
  • Terror, Reign of, vandalism during, 204
  • Timber split to give figure in surface, 76, 118
  • Transition between Gothic and Renaissance, 44, 47, 63
  • Turned work, see Glossary, 28

U

  • Upholstered chairs adopted in late Elizabethan days, 75
  • —— seat (William and Mary), 122

V

  • Vandyck at the Court of Charles I., 92
  • Varnish, oil, composition of, not now known, 119
  • —— spirit, a modern invention, 118
  • —— Vernis-Martin, see Glossary, 28
  • Veneer, see Glossary, 28
  • Veneered work, its adoption, 139
  • Veneers, woods used as, see Glossary, 29
  • Vernis-Martin (Martin's varnish), see Glossary, 28, 182
  • Versailles, sums spent upon building, 166; vandalism at, 172, 177

W

  • Wallace Collection, illustrations of specimens, at, 163, 171, 181, 183
  • Walnut period, 34
  • Walnut veneer, Queen Anne period, 139
  • Walpole, Horace, 221
  • Waring, Messrs., specimens from collection of, 81, 117, 119, 143, 149, 197
  • Watteau, 192
  • Wedgwood, Josiah, 247
  • Wellington, Duke of, collection in possession of, 209
  • Welsh dresser, 100
  • Westminster Abbey, Henry VII.'s chapel, 63
  • William and Mary furniture, prices realised at auction, 130
  • Winckelmann, 205
  • Woods preferred by Grinling Gibbons, 121
  • —— used for delicate carving by foreign schools, 116
  • —— used in furniture, see Glossary, 29
  • —— with fancy names, 29; botanical names of, 196
  • Woodwork, sixteenth century, fine examples of, 65
  • Worms, ravages of furniture, 234, 271, 274
  • Wren, Sir Christopher, 120

Y

  • Yorkshire chairs, 103

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