INDEX.

Adam, Robert and John, 112

Alexandria, ancient centre of civilisation, 17

Anglo-saxon houses, 44

Antioch, ancient centre of civilisation, 17

Architectural style in furniture, 94

Art, classic, ends in third century, 34 Byzantine, 35 mediæval, its growth, 41 its perfection, 47 Romanesque, long continuance, 42 renaissance, 66 classic, revived in eighteenth century, 107 early nineteenth century, 114

Atrium, 18

Attalus introduces tapestry, 17

Bedrooms, English, fourteenth century, 50 French, eighteenth century, 104

Beds, Byzantine period, 37 Norman, 46 Egyptian, Greek, &c., 116 Mediæval, 118, 119 at Hampton court, 120

Bellows, renaissance, 72

Bombé furniture, 104, 111

Boucher, 108108

Boule, 95

Bureaux in marquetry, 93, 104 or knee-hole, 128

Byzantine period, 35 wealth, 38 artists welcomed by Charlemagne, 41

Cabinet, French, sixteenth century, 89 Japan, 128

Cafass, Egyptian wood, 4

Candelabra, 23, 24

Candles, Anglo-saxon, &c., 23, 48

Carriage, Anglo-saxon, 45 fourteenth century, 54, 131 seventeenth century, 92 the Speaker's, 132 Lord Darnley's, 132

Caskets, Byzantine, 37

Ceilings in Roman houses, 21, 31

Chair, Egyptian, 4, 121 Nineveh, 7 Greek, 10, 11, 14 Roman, 28, 122 of St. Peter, 35 Byzantine, 37 at Ravenna, 39, 122 in Bayeux tapestry, 45 coronation, 49 of Guidobaldo, 63 Italian, fifteenth century, 63 folding mediæval, 122 of silver, at Barcelona, 123 the Glastonbury, 123 Italian, seventeenth century, 124 marquetry, 124

Chambers, Sir William, 106

Chariots, Hebrew, 9 Greek, 15 Roman, 130 Byzantine, 37

Chest, Greek, 11 Roman, 29 of king John, 47 fourteenth century, 51 for copes, 56 fifteenth century, 60

Chest, Italian, 61 renaissance, 69, 71

Chimneypieces, eighteenth century, 106

Chippendale, 106

Cipriani, 112

Cluny hôtel, carriages there, 2

Colbert, his patronage of art, 94

Couches, Egyptian, 5 Roman, 13 mediæval, 120

Coypel, Antoine, 104

Cradle, mediæval, 121

Cubicula, 20

Cypress chests, 70, 127

Dagobert's chair, 43

David, 105

Delafosse, 104, 108

Dilettanti society, influence, 115

Dining-room, Byzantine, 38

Diptych of Anastasius, 36

Distaff, 106

Doorway, English, seventeenth century, 98

"Droit de prisage," 54

Ébénistes, fine cabinet makers, 108

Ebony used seventeenth century, 108

Egyptian furniture, 5

Elizabethan style, 85

Flemish furniture, seventeenth century, 87

Fragonard, 108

French style prevalent in eighteenth century, 103, 105

Furniture, use of a collection, 1 Byzantine, still perhaps in mosques and treasuries, 40 sixteenth century, architectural, 75 eighteenth century, 103 bombé, explained, 104

German artists in England, sixteenth century, 78 work, eighteenth century, 111111

Gillow, 113

Glass windows in Roman houses, 20 mosaics, &c., 22 Venetian, 99

Glue used by the Romans, 33

Gouthière, 105, 110

Greek manners, simple, 12 houses, 14

Grinling Gibbons, 97 best examples of his work, 97

Halls in Roman villas, 20

Hebrew furniture, 8

Heppelwhite, 113

Hogarth, paintings of chimneypieces, 106

Holbein, his influence, 78

Holy-water stoup, 102

House, Roman, 18 Greek, 14 how warmed in Rome, 29 Anglo-saxon and Norman, 44, 46 of timber, fifteenth century, 58

Iconoclasts, destruction by, 40

Italian coffer at South Kensington, 61 artists, sixteenth century, 68 in France and England, 78, 89 carved woodwork, sixteenth century, 89 distaff, 106

Japanese lac-work, 106

Kauffmann (Angelica), 112

Kaunitz, a kind of bureau, 128

Kitchen utensils, Roman, 30

Knife case, sixteenth century, 76

Lac-work, Chinese and Japanese, 106

Lalonde, 108

Lares, 28

Lebrun, first head of the "Gobelins," 95

Le Pautre family, 104

Litters, Roman, 31

Lock (Matthias), 112

Locks in Roman houses, 21

Louvre, Egyptian boxes, 6

Maggiolino, 111

Mansard, 104

Marquetry, Venetian, 62 seventeenth century, 92, 93 Boule, 95

Meissonnier, 104, 108

Metallurgy, British, 42

Micque, 108

Mirror, Greek, 13 renaissance, 69

Mirror frames, sixteenth century, 71 Venetian, 91, 99 made in England, seventeenth century, 99, 100

Mosaic, Roman, pavements and on walls, or pietra dura, 74

Natoire, 108

Nero, colossus in his house, 25

Nineveh furniture, 6

Nuptiale, 18

Œci, 20

Oppenord, 108

Ostium, 18

Paintings and pictures in Roman houses, in thirteenth century, of rooms, 48, 49

Panelling for rooms, 49 oriental, 57 of a chest, 60 English, sixteenth century, 79, 80 French, sixteenth century, 84 English, 86

Pedestal, 90

Penates, 18

Peristylium, 20

Persian furniture, 8 marquetry, 63

Picture-frames, renaissance, 71

Pomeranian cabinet at Berlin, 92

Pompeii, value of discoveries, 16

Porcelain given to Queen Elizabeth, 130

Pottery, time of Edward I., 49

Pudens, ancient house of, 20

Pugin, 114

Queverdo, 108

Religious houses, their woodwork, 63 safe generally from spoliation, 67

Renaissance in Italy, 66 materials employed, 69 in England, France, &c., 78

Restout, Jean, 104

Riesener, 105, 108, 109

Robert, 108

Rococo furniture, 103

Roentgen, 108, 109

Roman habits, at first simple, 16 house, 18 couches in dining-rooms, 19, 27 locks and hinges, 21 tables, 25 chairs, 28 kitchen utensils, 30

Roof of Westminster Hall, 55

Room decorations, French, eighteenth century, 107

Room of Marie Antoinette's time at South Kensington, 107

Roundels, 129

Salembier, 108

Scamnum, 28

Sculpture, architectural, &c., fourteenth century, 56 renaissance, 69

Settle or seat, fourteenth century, 51

Sheraton, Thomas, 113

Sideboards, 128

Silks for furniture, eighteenth century, 107

Stuart style of woodwork and furniture, 85, 96

Table, Egyptian, 124 Nineveh, 8 Roman, 25, 125 veneered, 27 great value, 27 Norman, 46 furniture of, fourteenth century, 50 fourteenth and fifteenth century, 53, 58, 125 sixteenth century, 71 of Francesco de' Medici, 75 French, sixteenth century, 80, 81 English, seventeenth century, 102 long kept at Flaxton Hall, 126

Tapestry first brought to Rome, 17 in Roman houses, 30 in England, fourteenth century, &c., 50, 61 Gobelin, 95

Tarsia, 62, 73, 74

Temple of Diana, 33

Theatre of C. Curio, 32

Tigrinæ tables, 26

Triclinium, 18,

Tripods, 22

Tudor cabinet at South Kensington, 78 style, 85

Vase from Hadrian's villa, 25

Venetian mirror-frame, 91

Vernis-Martin, 105

Vestiaria, 20

Walpole (Horace), opinion on mediæval art, 111

Wardrobe, old English, 49 Roman, 126

Wars of the Roses, evil consequences, 64

Wood used in Nineveh, 8 Greece, 15 Rome, for tables, &c., 26, 32 by Riesener, 109

Woodwork, English, in thirteenth century, 48 sixteenth century, 79 Germany, in sixteenth century, 83 Spanish, in sixteenth century, 84 Tudor and Stuart, 86

Wren, Sir Christopher, 97

Wyattville, 114

THE END.

DALZIEL BROTHERS, CAMDEN PRESS, N.W.

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