Field Guide to American Antique Furniture: A Unique Visual System for Identifying the Style of Virtually Any Piece of American Antique FurnitureOver 1700 of Skibinski's line drawings present a visual approach to the identification of antique furnishings. The book is arranged in chronological sequences (17th century through the early 20th century) by type of furniture, from tables and settees to desks and bookcases. Butler and Johnson have included some important information for the novice and the experienced collector: the sources of furniture used as models for the illustrations; lists of museums, art galleries, and special displays of outstanding collections of furniture; a selected bibliography and a glossary; the anatomy of a piece of furniture; and a brief history of the periods of furniture and furniture makers. Highly recommended for public libraries and other subject collections. |
Contents
Anatomy of Furniture | 8 |
Origins of American Furniture | 17 |
The Queen Anne Style | 28 |
Windsor Furniture | 44 |
American NeoclassicismThe Federal Style | 53 |
The Empire Style | 59 |
The Gothic and Elizabethan Revival Styles | 65 |
The Louis XVI Revival Style | 73 |
Exotic and Eclectic | 82 |
Sources of the Furniture Illustrated | 364 |
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Field Guide to American Antique Furniture: A Unique Visual System for ... Joseph T. Butler No preview available - 1986 |
Common terms and phrases
19th century America American furniture Attributed Baltimore BENCHES Boston cabinet cabinetmakers cabriole legs Card table CHAIRS CHAIRS Charleston chest of drawers Chippendale period Classical Connecticut corners crest rail cupboard curved DAYBEDS decoration Desk and bookcase Dressing table Drop-leaf table Duncan Phyfe Eastwood Syracuse Easy chair England English example Fall front desk Federal period feet finial front furniture forms Gothic Gustav Stickley's Craftsman High chest High-post bedstead inlay John Labeled by maker looking-glass marble top Marlborough legs Mary period Maryland Massachusetts motif Mount Lebanon Museum Neo-Grec Newport Note ornamentation painted panels pediment Pembroke table Pennsylvania Philadelphia pieces popular Probably New York Queen Anne style Renaissance Revival Revival style Rhode Island Rococo Revival Salem scalloped scroll seat rail seen serpentine SETTEES Shaker shell Shield-back chair Sideboard Sofa South Carolina spindles splat Stickley's Craftsman Workshops Stool stretchers Tea table Tilt-top turned Upholstered armchair veneer William and Mary Windsor wood сл