INDEX

Adam style table, 186

America, the Windsor chair acclimatised in, 246

America, spindle-back chairs, 239

America, carved chests of Puritan colonists, 60

America, types coincident with Jacobean, 60

Anachronism in country makers' work, 204

Anne, Queen, chintz printing in time of, 325

Anne, Queen, style—cabriole leg, advent of, 167

Anne, Queen, chests of drawers, 67

Anne, Queen, scandal at Court of, 158

Anne, Queen, so-called style, 167

Back—the chair, and its development, 203

Bacon cupboards, 154

Ball and claw foot, introduction of, 162

"Barley sugar" turning, illustrated, 105

Bedfordshire tables, 283

Bedstead, Jacobean, illustrated, 77

Bevel of panel indicating date, 204

Bible-boxes, 34, 139-154

Bloomfield, Robert, quoted, 268

Bobbins, Buckinghamshire, 153

Brittany dressers, 134

Broken corners, Queen Anne style, 167, 169

Buckinghamshire bobbins, 153

Bureau bookcase and cupboard, 176

Bureaus, marquetry in coloured woods, 169

Byzantine types of furniture existent in Elizabethan days, 37

Cabriole leg, advent of the, 167

Cabriole leg (Queen Anne period), 129

Cambridge tables, 283

Candle dipper, the, 288

Cane-back chairs, 203, 207

Cane-back chairs, late Stuart, 199

Cane-back chair, its influence on farmhouse styles, 208

Caning in chairs out of fashion, 162

Chairs— America, Windsor chair, types of, 246 Back, the, its development, 203 Caned-back chair, its influence on farmhouse styles, 208 Caned chairs, late Stuart, 199, 203, 207 Caning out of fashion, 162 Charles II. period styles, 211 Chippendale styles, 179 Chippendale, Windsor styles, 254 Corner chairs, 240 Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, 221 Cupid's bow top rail, 218 Cushions, their use with, 199, 207 Derbyshire chairs, 203 Elizabethan turned chairs, 37 Evolution of the chair, 189-241 Fiddle splat chairs, introduction of, 162 Fiddle splat, Queen Anne style, 217 Fiddle splat, Windsor, at its best, 254 "Fiddle-string" backs, 249 Goldsmith, Oliver, his chair, 253 Grandfather variety, 168, 230 Hepplewhite country styles, 221 Hepplewhite Windsor chairs, 254 Horseshoe back, Windsor, 259, 260 Jacobean, typical form, 196 Ladder-back chairs, 233 Lancashire rush-bottom chairs, 241 Lancashire spindle back chairs, 278 Modern office-chair, derivation of, 260 Prince of Wales's feathers in back, 227 Ribbon-back, introduction of, 179 Rush-bottomed chairs, 233 Shell ornament employed, 167 Sheraton country styles, 221 Sheraton Windsor chairs, 259, 260 Spindle-back chairs, 234 Splat, Queen Anne, the, 217 Straight-backed chairs, 203 Stretcher, evolution of the, 200 Tavern chairs, 249 Wheel-back Windsor chairs, 259 Woods used, Windsor chairs, 249, 250

Charles II. chests of drawers, 62

Charles II. period, impetus given to furniture design, 95

Charles II. period, styles of chairs, 211

Chests, Gothic, 34

Chests, sixteenth century, 34

Chests, Welsh carving, 277

Chests of drawers, 60

Chests of drawers, Charles II. period, 62

Chests of drawers, Queen Anne style, 67

Children's stools, Jacobean, illustrated, 77

Chimney crane, the, 294

China and glass cupboards, 180

Chinese designs in chintzes, 333

Chinese style of Chippendale, 227

Chintz printing becomes a national industry, 321

Chintzes, old English, 317-341

Chippendale and his contemporaries, 180

Chippendale clock cases, 312

Chippendale quoted, 227, 228

Chippendale, ribbon designs of, 179

Chippendale style, provincial, 221

Chippendale style Windsor chairs, 254

Chocolate houses, polemic against, 170

Chronology, seventeenth-century, 45-48

Claw-and-ball foot, introduction of, 162

Clock and dresser combined, 129

Clocks, grandfather, 306

Club foot, introduction of, 162

Cobbett, William, quoted, 67

Coffee-drinking and coffee-houses, 170

Coffee, women's petition against, 170

Corner chairs, 240

Cottage furniture and earthenware compared, 31

Country cabinet-maker, his mixture of styles, 211

Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, 221

Country furniture, its sturdy independence, 24

Country makers little influenced by contemporary fashion, 50

Cradles, 148

Cromwellian chests with drawers, 52

Crusie, the Scottish, 277, 293

Cupboard, the bacon, 154

Cupboard, Welsh carving, 277

Cupboards, corner, introduction of, 162

Cupboards and drawers, taste for, 125

"Cupid's bow" underframing, 107, 185

"Cupid's bow" top rail of chair, 218

Cushions, their use with chairs, 199, 207

Delany, Mrs., quoted, 153

Denmark, the conservation of old farmhouse furniture in, 38

Derbyshire chairs, 203

Design books, eighteenth-century, publication of, 222

Director, by Chippendale, a working guide, 223

Drawer accommodation a feature in late dressers, 130

Drawers, chests of, 60

Drawers, chests of, Charles II. period, 62

Drawers, chests of, Queen Anne style, 67

Dresser and clock combined, 129

Dressers, farmhouse, 115-135

Dressers— Brittany, 134 Lancashire, 134 Normandy, 134 Welsh, 133

Dutch artisans print early English chintzes, 321

Dutch influence early eighteenth century, 168, 170

Earthenware and cottage furniture compared, 31

Eighteenth-century dressers, 130

Eighteenth-century pleasure gardens, 249

Eighteenth-century styles, 157-187

Elizabethan turned chairs, 37

English chintzes, old, 317-341

English farmhouse furniture, desirability of its preservation, 42

English joiners' work, its solidity, 51

Essex tables, 283

Exotic bird patterns in chintzes, 333

"Farmer's Boy" (Robert Bloomfield) quoted, 268

Farmhouse furniture (English), desirability of its preservation, 42

Farmhouse furniture influenced by walnut styles, 208

Farmhouse styles contemporary with the cane-back chair, 208

Feet— Arcaded foot, Charles II. period, 62 Ball, 62; illustrated, 65 Claw-and-ball foot, introduction of the, 162 Club foot, its introduction, 162 Hoof foot, the, 176 Scroll or Spanish foot, 104, 203 Spanish foot, the, 104, 203 Spanish foot, in corrupted form, illustrated, 105, 109 Trestle, in Gothic style, 90

Fiddle splat chairs, introduction of, 162

Fiddle splat, Queen Anne style, 217

Fiddle splat Windsor chair at its best, 254

"Fiddle-string" backs, 249

Firebacks, Sussex, 296

Firebacks, Sussex, fine examples exhibited, 305

Firedogs, cottage and farmhouse, 294

Food of country population, seventeenth century, 81

Foreign styles, slow assimilation of, 67

French artisans print early English chintzes, 321

Gate-leg tables, 85-112

Gate-leg table, double gates, 96; illustrated, 93

Gate-leg table, established as a popular type, 90

Gate-leg table, square top, illustrated, 105

Geometric panels, chests of drawers, 61; dressers, 121

Georgian styles, early types, 179

Gibbons, Grinling, the style of, 56

Goldsmith, Oliver, his chair, 253

Gothic brackets to chests, 34

Gothic chests, 34

Gothic trestle, gate-leg table, 89

Grandfather chair, the, 230

Grandfather chair, curved lines of, 168

Grandfather clocks, 306

Grandfather clock combined with dresser, 129

Great Seal of Queen Anne, showing style of ornament, 168

Hardwick Hall, suite at, 55

Hepplewhite clock cases, 312

Hepplewhite influence on village work, 207

Hepplewhite quoted, 229, 230

Hepplewhite style, provincial, 221

Hertfordshire tables, 283

Hogarth, the line of beauty the curve, 168

Hoof foot, the, 176

Horseshoe-back Windsor chairs, 130, 257, 260

Incongruity of provincial cabinet-maker, 211

Inlaid work rarely employed, 55

Inlaid work with walnut, 169

Inlaid work, woods used, 169

Irish Chippendale, 272

Ironwork, miscellaneous, 287-313

Ironwork, Scottish, 277

Isle of Man tables, 283

Jacobean cradles, 148

Jacobean dressers with geometric panels, 121

Jacobean furniture, typical styles, 49

Jacobean oak chair, typical form, 196

Jacobean period, its characteristics, 95

Jacobean period, late styles of, 115

Jacobean style, its transition to William and Mary, 207

Jacobean Sussex firebacks, 299, 300

Joinery, the solidity of English, 51

Jones, R., of Old Ford, chintz printer, 337

Kettle trivet, the cottager's, 295

Lacquer employed in clock-cases, 312

Ladder-back chair, the, 233

Lancashire chintzes, 337

Lancashire dressers, 134

Lancashire furniture, 278

Lancashire Queen Anne settle, 167

Lancashire rush-bottom chair, 241

Legs— "Barley sugar" turning illustrated, 105 Cabriole leg, introduction of the, 167 Egg and reel turning, 43; illustrated, 93 Eight legs (gate table), 99 Elizabethan bulbous leg, 60 Jacobean straight-turned leg, 60 Jacobean, various forms of turning, 89 Queen Anne cabriole leg, 129 Six legs, gate table, illustrated, 99 Split urn leg, illustrated, 91, 119 Straight leg again in vogue, 180 Urn-shaped leg, 60 Urn-shaped splat, 121; illustrated, 91, 119

Linen-fold pattern on chests, 32

Local types, 33

Local types of furniture, 267-284

London and the vicinity, chintz printed in, 322

Longleat, oak furniture at, 55

Lyngby (near Copenhagen), collection of old farmhouse furniture at, 41

Macaulay quoted, 158

Macaulay, "State of England in 1685" quoted, 76

Mahogany gate-leg tables, 103

Mahogany styles, their gracefulness, 179

Mahogany, the chief designers of, of the golden age, 104

Marlborough, Duchess of, and her intrigues, 158

Marquetry bureaus in coloured woods, 169

Marquetry, woods used in, 169

Minor cabinet-makers' work lacking harmony, 212

Modern office-chair, derivation from Windsor type, 263

More, Hannah, and the agricultural classes, 175

Morris, William, his influence on furniture, 111

"Mule" chests, 52

Norfolk, oak furniture, 283

Normandy dressers, 134

Normans, furniture, styles of, introduced by, 37

North, Roger, quoted, 170

Oak, erroneously used to carry out walnut designs, 212

Oak, general in its use, 55

Oak supplanted by walnut in fashionable furniture, 207

Oak the chief wood employed, 33

Office-chair, derivation from Windsor type, 263

Oriental patterns in chintzes, 333

Panelling, bevel of, indicating date of, 204

Panels, sunk, Jacobean style, 62

Patterns, wood, used for firebacks, 300

People, changing habits of the, in seventeenth century, 72

Pepys's Diary, quoted, 79

Pleasure gardens, eighteenth-century, 249

Pot-hook, the, 294

Pot-hooks, fine examples, where exhibited, 294

Prince of Wales's feathers, 227

Provincial furniture many decades behind fashion, 50

Queen Anne, cabriole leg, 129

Queen Anne dressers, 122

Queen Anne flap tables, 89

Queen Anne period, the splat of the, 217

Restoration period, chests of drawers, 62

Ribbon designs, introduction of, 179

Roads in provinces, bad state of, 79

Rush-bottom chair, the, 233

Rushlight holder, the, 288

Scandinavian origin of Elizabethan chair, 37

Scotland, Union with, proclamation by Queen Anne, 161

Scottish types of ironwork, 277

"Seaweed" marquetry in clock-cases, 312

Settle, Lancashire form, 278

Settle, Queen Anne style, 167

Seventeenth-century, chronology of, 45-48

Seventeenth-century settle (Lancashire), 278

Seventeenth-century sideboard, typical style, 56

Seventeenth-century styles, 49-82

Seventeenth-century styles, types of, 72

Shell ornament, early eighteenth-century, 167

Sheraton clock-cases, 312

Sheraton influence on country makers, 234

Sheraton influence in Windsor chairs, 259

Sheraton style, provincial, 221

Sideboard, typical seventeenth-century style, 56

Sixteenth-century chests, 34

Sizergh Castle, oak room at, 55

Spanish foot, its use, 104, 107

Spanish Succession, War of the, 161

Spindle-back chair, the, 234

Spindle-back chairs (Lancashire), 278

Spinning-wheels, 153

Spitalfields weavers, complaint as to chintz fashions, 326, 330

Splat, the Queen Anne, 217

Staffordshire pottery and cottage furniture compared, 31

Stands for chests of drawers, 67

Stockholm, collection of farmhouse furniture at, 38

Stools, children's Jacobean, illustrated, 77

Straight-backed chairs, 203

Stretcher, evolution of the, 200

Stretcher, Yorkshire splat form, 96

Suffolk oak furniture, 283

Sussex firebacks, 296

Sussex ironworks, the, 295, 296

"Swan head" to cupboard, 168

Sweden, the conservation of old farmhouse furniture in, 38

Swift quoted, 161

Tables— Adam style, 186 Arcaded spandrils, illustrated, 179 Bedfordshire types, 283 Cambridge types, 283 Collapsible form (Charles II.), 103 Cross stretcher, X form, 103 Cupid's bow underframing, 107; illustrated, 109 Elizabethan bulbous-leg form, 60 Essex types, 283 Flap tables (Queen Anne), 89; (Georgian), illustrated, 183 Gate-leg, 85-112 Gothic trestle, gate-leg table, 89 Hertfordshire types, 283 Isle of Man table, 283 Scalloped-edge tea-table, illustrated, 181 Scalloped underframing, illustrated, 73 Sixteenth-century style, 52 Spandrils, arcaded, illustrated, 179 Stretchers, splat form, 89; illustrated, 97 Tea-table, Queen Anne style, 185 Three-legged, 283 Underframing, Cupid's bow, illustrated, 109 Various local types, 283 Yorkshire type, 89

Tapers, how made by cottagers, 288

Tavern chair, the, 249

Tea-drinking becomes national, 170

Tea-gardens, eighteenth-century, 249

Tea-table, Queen Anne style, 185

Three-legged tables, 283

Transition from Jacobean to William and Mary styles, 207

Trestle in gate-leg table, 89

Triangular gate form, 86; illustrated, 87

Tripod tables, 185

Turning, various patterns in Jacobean leg, 89

Union with Scotland, 161

Varangian Guard introduce Byzantine furniture into Scandinavia, 37

Veneer, in walnut, early eighteenth-century, 169

Village cabinet-maker, originality of, 32

Wales, Prince of, feathers in chair back, 227

Walnut gate-leg tables, 103

Walnut in general use, 207

Walnut styles, early eighteenth-century, 169

Walnut supplanted by mahogany, 207

Warming-pan, the, 295

Wardrobe, Lancashire type, 278

Welsh carving, 272

Welsh dressers, 133

Wesley and the Methodist movement, 175

Whitefield and the colliers, 175

Wheel-back Windsor chairs, 257

William and Mary dressers, 126

William and Mary gate-leg tables, 104

William and Mary period, finely turned work, 75

William and Mary style, its development from Jacobean, 207

Windsor chair, the, 243-263

Windsor chair, the, Sheraton influence, 259

Windsor chair, its survival, 260

Windsor chairs, Chippendale style, 254

Wood patterns used for firebacks, 300

Woods employed in farmhouse furniture, 33

Woods used in Windsor chairs, 249, 250

Woods used in walnut marquetry, 169

Women's petition against coffee, 170

Yorkshire chairs, 203

Yorkshire splat stretcher to tables, 96

UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON.