ABC/284 - A History of English Furniture - The age of satinwood

ABC/284

A History of English Furniture - The age of satinwood

1 volume

A History of English Furniture by Percy Macquoid, with plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations selected and arranged by the author. The main aim of this volume is to talk about the history, development and evolution of English furniture and the foreign influences that contributed to them. The subject has been divided into four periods. The first, dating from 1500 to 1600, comprising furniture that can be attributed to the Renaissance and its evolution from the Gothic, termed as 'The Age of Oak'. The second, from 1660 to 1720, where the change is varied by the Restoration and Dutch influence, followed by an English spirit, called 'The Age of Walnut'. The third period, lasting from 1720 to 11770, with French influences, called 'The Age of Mahogany'; and the fourth, from1770 to 1820; inspired by a combination of all things classical, combined with a curiously unbalanced taste, described as 'The Composite Age'. The colour plates depict: Red Lacquer Cabinet; Inlaid Commode; Mahogany Escritoire; Mahogany and Satin-Wood Sideboard; Gilt Table with Marble Top; Inlaid Folding Card-Table; Painted Chair; Satin-wood Chair; Inlaid Mahogany Pole-screen; Amboyna-Wood Writing-cabinet; Mahogany and Satin-wood Clothes-press; Satin-wood Commode; Painted Sideboard-commode; Painted Satin-wood Writing-cabinet; Satin-wood Tea-caddy; Circular Knife-case; Painted Satin-wood Chair; Painted Chair; Satin-wood Work-table; Satin-wood Dressing-table; Painted Commode. The other Illustrations depict: Adam; Amboyna-wood; Badminton; Barometer-cases; Beds; Beechwood; Bird-cage; Black-wood; Blenheim; Book-cases; Bossi Cement; Bracket Clocks; Burghley; Cabinets; Candle-stands; Candlesticks; Cartel Clocks; Chairs; Chandeliers; Chests; Chests of Drawers; Cheval Glasses; China-cases; Chinese Art; Chippendale; Cipriani; Clock-cases; Clothes-presses; Lady Mary Coke; Commode Chest of Drawers; Commodes; Country-houses; Cupboards; Decker; Mrs. Delany; Robert Dossie; Dressers; Dressing-tables; Drinking-tables; Drizzling; Edwards and Darley; Empire Style; Escritoires; Flaxman; Furniture in Farmhouses; Madame Genlis; Gentlemen's Secretary; Robert Gillow; Glass Chandeliers; Gouthiere; Haig and Chippendale; Sir William Hamilton; Hardwicke; Harewood House; Hepplewhite; Houghton; Ince and Mayhew; Japanning; Angelica Kauffmann; 'Kidney'-tables; Knife-cases; Lacquer Beds, Chairs, China-cases, Commodes, Furniture, Tables; Lamps; Library Furniture; Sir Horace Mann; Simon Martin; Medicine-cupboards; Metal-work; Mirrors; Neilson; Nostell Priory; Osterley; Parfilage; Parfileuses; Parisot; Pear-Wood; Pedestal Sideboards; Pedestals; Pembroke Tables; Pergolesi; Piranesi; Plate-glass; Powders and Cometics; William Salmon; Satin-wood; Seddon; Sequoia; Settees; Shaving-tables; Thomas Shearer;Sheraton; Sideboards; Side-tables; Snakewood; Soane Museum; Sofas; Stretchers for Chairs; Taper-legs; Tapestry; Tea-caddies, gardens; Torcheres; Tub-chairs; Wall-lights; Walpole; Wardrobes; Wedgwood; Wheel-pattern; Window-seats; Work-tables; Writing-cabinets; Vases; Zebra-wood; Zuccharelli; Zucchi.

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