The Book of Decorative Furniture: Its Form, Colour, & History, Volume 1Putnam, 1911 - Decoration and ornament |
Contents
FOURTEENTHCENTURY BUTTRESSED COFFER | 11 |
GRECIAN ART IN WOODWORK | 14 |
MARRIAGE COFFER OR CASSONE ITALIAN | 19 |
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ancient André Charles Boulle Androuet du Cerceau appear architecture armoire artists bedstead Boulle cabinet Carolean CARVED OAK carver castle CERCEAU chair Charles Charles II chest chimneypiece Church Circa coffer collection colonial Colour Plate contemporary court cupboard craft craftsmen decorative furniture decorative woodwork drawers Dutch early ebony Edwin Foley EGYPTIAN Elizabethan England English example fifteenth Flanders Flemish forms France French German Gibbon Gothic Greek GRINLING GIBBON hall height Henry VIII Holland Inigo Jones inlaid Italian Renaissance Italy ivory Jacobean JEAN BERAIN lacquer LATE GOTHIC later legs LINENFOLD Louis Treize Louis XIV Louvre marqueterie medieval modern MUSÉE MUSEUM ornament painted Palace panels pattern period picturesque piece of furniture pilasters probably Queen reign Roman royal seat seventeenth century shown in Colour silver sixteenth century Spain Spanish stools style tapestry trestle Tudor TUDOR PERIOD typical usually veneering walls walnut whilst William wood woodwork