Antique Collector's Directory of Period Detail: How to Identify the Key Characteristics, Shapes, and Forms of Period StylesA guide to the characteristic shapes and styles of different periods. Each major style is examined in depth from a number of perspectives. |
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Contents | 19 |
FROM BAROQUE TO ROCOCO | 25 |
NEOCLASSICAL DIRECTIONS | 89 |
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acanthus Adam style America architect architectural armchair art deco art nouveau Arts and Crafts asymmetrical baluster Baroque base became Biedermeier bowl bronze mounts cabinet cabriole legs candlesticks carved ceramics chairback Chinese chinoiserie Chippendale classical clock Collector's Gallery colors Crafts Movement curved decorative arts Detail Directory dining chairs drawers early eighteenth century elaborate enamel England English engraved Europe factory fashion figures flowers France French geometric gilded gilt bronze giltwood glass glassware glazed Gothic revival Greek handles influence inlaid inspired interior lamps LEFT Louis Louis XIV mahogany makers marquetry materials metal metalwork mirrors molded motifs neoclassical neoclassicism nineteenth century ormolu ornament painted Palladian panels particularly period pieces popular porcelain pottery produced Regency RIGHT Robert Adam rococo revival rococo style Roman scrolls sculptural seventeenth century Sèvres shapes silver simple stem stylized swags techniques Thomas Chippendale twentieth century typical upholstered urns usually vases veneers walnut wares wood