INDEX

A

Adam, the brothers, and their style, 209, 241-256

Adam armchair (illustrated), 243

Admiralty, screen and gateway, designed by Robert Adam, 242

Anne, Queen, furniture of, prices realised at auction, 153

—— insularity of furniture in reign of, 136

—— well-constructed furniture of period of, 145

Apsley House, collection of furniture at, 209

Armoire, see Glossary, 23

Ascham, quotation from, 68

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, chair at, 115

B

Baroque, see Glossary, 23

Barrow, Sam, name of maker, on Queen Anne clock, 148

Battersea enamel, its use on furniture, 252

Bérain, Jean, 162

Blenheim, chair from, 222

Bodleian Library, Oxford, illustration of chair at, 82

Bombé, see Glossary, 23

Bookcase by Chippendale, 225, 231

Boucher, 182, 195

Boule, André Charles, and his marquetry, 160-162

—— cabinet (illustrated), 165

—— see Glossary, 23

—— and counter-boule (illustrated), showing difference between, 163

Bridal chest (German), 43

Bromley-by-Bow, "Old Palace," oak panelling from, 65

Brown and Bool, Messrs., specimens from collection of, 141, 150

Buhl work, 160

Bureau, see Glossary, 24

Burr-walnut panels, 139

Butter-cupboard, 104

C

Cabinet, ebony, formerly property of Oliver Cromwell, 99

Cabriole, see Glossary, 24

Cabriole-leg, introduction of into England, 127

Caffieri, 177, 191

Cambridge, King's College Chapel, woodwork of, 63

Cane seats and backs of chairs, adoption of, 117

—— work in chairs, later development of, 122

Carolean, see Glossary, 25

Carving supplanted by cane-work panels, 117

Caryatides, see Glossary, 24

Cassette, (strong box) of period of Louis XIV., 158

Cassone, see Glossary, 24

—— (marriage coffer), the Italian, 42

Catherine of Braganza, fashions introduced by, 114

Cecil, Lord Burleigh, quotation from, 66

Chair, Charles I., 93, 95

—— Chippendale, 223, 224, 226, 227, 232, 233

—— "Cromwellian," 96

—— high-backed, Portuguese, 114

—— Italian (1620), 94

—— Jacobean, made from timber of Drake's Golden Hind, 83

—— James I., 87, 89

—— James II., 123

—— Louis XIII. period, 159

—— ribbon-back, 222, 223

—— Oliver Goldsmith's, 215

—— with arms of first Earl of Strafford, 93

Chairs, test as to age of, 100

—— types of Jacobean (illustrated), 97, 100, 105, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124

—— types of Queen Anne period (illustrated), 143

—— upholstered, adopted in late Elizabethan days, 75

Chambers, Sir William, 216

Chardin, picture by, showing ladder-back chair, 245

Charles I. furniture, prices realised at auction, 106

—— II. furniture, prices realised at auction, 129

—— II., repartee of, 114

Charterhouse, specimen at, illustration of, 227

Chatsworth, work of Grinling Gibbons at, 121

Chests of drawers, Jacobean, 117

China collecting, influence of, on furniture, 127

Chinese and Japanese cabinets, 148

"Chinese" Chippendale, 213, 221

Chippendale, Thomas, and his style, 213-238; his Director, 215

—— bureau-bookcase, 225, 231

—— furniture, tricks concerning, 272; prices of, 227, 236

Cipriani, 249

Classic models paramount, 205

Claw-and-ball feet adopted by Chippendale, 216

—— feet (prior to Chippendale), 146

—— foot, introduction of, 127

Clock, "Grandfather," introduction of, 127

Clocks, "Grandfather," 147

Colbert, the guiding spirit of art under Louis XIV., 159

Collectors, hints to, 259-274

Commode, see Glossary, 24

Commodes (illustrated), Cressent, 171; Louis XIV., 173; Caffieri, 175; Riesener, 197

Contre partie, see Glossary, 24

Copeland, designs of, 247

Copies of old furniture, 259, 263

—— of fine French pieces, 185, 197

Cottage furniture (Chippendale style), 232

Counter-boule, see Glossary, 24

——-boule, 161

Court cupboard, 70

Cowley, quotation from, 85

Cradle, with initials and date, 96

Cressent, Charles, 177, 178

Crispin de Passe, chair designed by, 159

Cromwellian chair, 96

Cromwell's ebony cabinet, 96

Cushions for chairs when adopted, 75

D

Darly, 248

Dated pieces—

1593, Elizabethan bedstead, 66 1603, Mirror, carved oak frame, 71 1603, Court cupboard, 73 1616, Oak table, 85 1623, Chair, 97 1641, Cradle, 96 1642, Chair, 159 1653, Cabinet, frontispiece 1760-69, "Bureau du roi," 185 1769, Bureau, 196 1810, Jewel cabinet, 207

David, 195, 208, 209

Derbyshire chairs, 103

Diderot, 205

Director, designs of chair-backs from, 222, 225

Drake, Sir Francis, chair made from timber of Golden Hind, 82

Drawers, chests of, Jacobean, 117

Dressers, Normandy, 103

—— "Welsh," 100

Dublin Museum, illustration of oak chest at, 44

Dutch art, introduction of, by William of Orange, 124

—— house, interior of (illustrated), 111

—— lacquer work, 151

—— marquetry, 128, 146

—— marquetry chair, illustrated, 143

—— marquetry, prices realised at auction, 132

E

Eassie, Walter, illustrations from drawings by, 171, 183

Egyptian design, influence of, 247

Eighteenth century, early, well-constructed furniture of, 145

—— interior of room (illustrated), 235

Elizabethan mansions, some noteworthy, 67

Elizabethan woodwork, fine example of, 65

Empire style furniture, 202-210

—— its influence on English makers, 209

England, Renaissance in, 37, 59-78

F

Farmhouse furniture, 100

Figure in wood, how obtained, 76, 118

Fire of London, destruction of furniture by, 120

First Empire style, 203-210

Flemish wood-carving, its influence on English craftsmen, 49

Fontainebleau, illustration of jewel cabinet at, 207

Foreign workmen employed in England, 37

Fragonard, 182, 195

France, Renaissance in, 43

Francis I., patron of the new art, 47

Frauds perpetrated on collectors, 259-274

French polish, see Glossary, 24, 236

French Revolution, vandalism during, 204

G

Gate-leg table, see Glossary, 24

—— table, 95

Gibbons, Grinling, work of, 121

Gillow, 248

Golden Hind, chair made from timbers of, 82

Goldsmith, Oliver, chair of, 215, 216

Gothic, see Glossary, 25

—— revival, its influence on Chippendale, 221

Gouthière, Pierre, 191, 192, 197

Grandfather clock, 147

—— clock, introduction of, 127

Great Hall at Hampton Court, 63

Grimm, quotation from, 205

Grotesque design prevalent in Elizabethan furniture, 69

H

Hall, Hampton Court, the Great, 63

—— Middle Temple, carved screen at, 65

Hampton Court, the Great Hall at, 63

—— Court, work of Grinling Gibbons at, 121

Hampton & Sons, Messrs., pieces from collection of, 59, 95, 99, 115, 120, 121, 135, 143, 147, 148, 250

Harrington, Sir John, quotation from, 75

Henry VII.'s chapel, Westminster Abbey, 63

—— VIII., patron of the new art, 37

Heppelwhite, the style of, 241-256

—— chairs (illustrated), 243

Herculaneum and Pompeii, influence of excavations at, 204, 209

Hints to Collectors, 259-274

Hogarth, William, 246

Holbein in England, 37

Honey, W. G., Esq., specimen from collection of, 151

Huygens, Dutch lacquer of, 182

I

Ince & Mayhew's designs, 247

India office, specimen at, illustration of, 226

Ingenious contrivances of Sheraton's furniture, 251

Inlay, see Glossary, 25

—— in Elizabethan pieces, 69

Italian art dominates Elizabethan fashion, 68

Italy, Renaissance in, 41

J

Jacobean, see Glossary, 25

—— furniture, its fine simplicity, 104

Jacobean furniture, prices realised at auction, 106, 129

James I., chair at Knole House, 86

—— II. furniture, prices realised at auction, 130

Japanese and Chinese cabinets, 148

Japanese lac imitated, 182

Jones Bequest, illustrations of specimens in, 165, 179, 193

—— Inigo, his influence, 93

K

Kauffman, Angelica, 249

Kent, eighteenth-century designer, 246

Kew Gardens, pagoda at, 216

King's College Chapel, Cambridge, woodwork of, 63

Kitchen furniture (Chippendale style), 232

Knole House, James I. furniture at, 86

L

Lac, see Glossary, 26

—— Japanese and Chinese imitated, 182

Lacquer, see Glossary, 26

Lancaster & Co., Messrs. Harold G., specimens from collection of, 122, 123, 137, 231, 232, 241, 251

Leather work, cut design, Portuguese chair-back, 128

Le Bas, Rev. H. V., illustration of specimen in possession of, 210

Lebrun, Madame, 205

Leczinski, Stanislas, King of Poland, 196

Linen pattern, see Glossary, 26

Lock, Matthias, designs of, 247

Louis XIII., chair of period of, 159

—— XIV., period of, 157-167

—— XV., period of, 171-187

—— XVI., period of, 191-200

Louvre, copy of picture in, 203

—— illustration of portrait in, 209

M

Macaulay, Lord, quotation from, 96, 136

"Made-up" pieces, 265

Madrid National Museum, illustration of specimen at, 52

Mahogany period, 34

—— how procured by British captains, 214

—— Sir Walter Raleigh's discovery of, 214

Mansions built in Elizabethan days, 67

Manwaring, designs of, 247

Marie Antoinette, furniture belonging to, 179, 180, 195

Marie Louise, jewel cabinet of, 208

Marquetry, see Glossary, 26

—— Dutch, 128

—— Dutch, 146

—— elaborate, 180, 182

—— in Elizabethan pieces, 69

—— work, spurious, 273

Martin, Sieur Simon Etienne (Vernis-Martin), 182

Martin's varnish (Vernis-Martin), see Glossary, 28

Meissonier, inspirer of rococo style, 177

Middle Temple Hall, carved oak screen at, 65

Mirrors, arrangement in Hampton Court galleries, 123

—— at Nell Gwynne's house, 123

—— Chippendale, 229

—— made by French and Italian workmen, 124

—— Queen Anne, 136

—— various forms of, 124

Mortise, see Glossary, 26

Mother-of-pearl inlay, seventeenth century, 116

Munich National Museum, illustration of specimen at, 39

N

Naples Museum, illustration of table at, 205

Napoleon, his influence on art, 208

Natoire, 182, 195

Needlework decorated cabinet, Charles II. period, 112

Netherlands, Renaissance in, 49

Netscher, Caspar, illustration after picture by, 111

Normandy dressers, 103

Notable examples of sixteenth, century English woodwork, 65

O

Oak, collectors of, hints to, 103, 118

—— furniture, the collector's polish for, 118

—— period, 34

—— polish, see Glossary, 26

Oeben, Jean François, 178

Old oak, polish for, 118

P

Parquetry, see Glossary, 26

Passe Crispin de, chair designed by, 159

Pater, 192

Penshurst Place, Indo-Portuguese furniture at, 115

Petworth House, work of Grinling Gibbons at, 121

Polish, French, 24; oil, 26

Pollen, J., Hungerford, quotation from, 196

Pompeii, influence of excavations at, 204, 208, 247

Ponsonby-Fane, Right Hon. Sir Spencer, specimens in collection of, 101, 224

Portuguese furniture, late seventeenth century, in England, 114

Q

Queen Anne cabinet (illustrated), 141

—— chairs (illustrated), 143

—— furniture, prices realised at auction, 153

—— mirror frame (illustrated), 137

—— settle (illustrated), 149, 155

R

Raleigh, Sir Walter, mahogany first brought home by, 214

Récamier, portrait of, by David, 209

Reeded, see Glossary, 27

Renaissance, see Glossary, 27

—— in England, 37, 59-78

—— in France, 43

—— in Italy, 41

—— in the Netherlands, 49

—— in Spain, 48

—— on the Continent, 33-55

—— origin of, 38, 41

Restored, see Glossary, 27

—— cupboard showing over-elaboration, 73

"Restored" pieces, 265

Revolution in France, vandalism during, 204

Ribbon-back chair (illustrated), 222

—— ornamentation adapted from France, 64; (illustrated) 60

—— pattern, early use of, by French woodcarvers, 92

Riesener, Jean François, 185, 191, 192, 195, 197, 208

Robinson, V. J., Esq., C.I.E., furniture belonging to, 219

Rococo, see Glossary, 27

Roe, Mr. Frederick, quotation from, 266

Roentgen, David, 182

S

Sackville, Lord, early Jacobean furniture in collection of, 86

St. Paul's Cathedral, work of Grinling Gibbons at, 121

Secret drawers, 114

—— drawers, pieces with, 113, 157, 231

—— drawers, Sheraton's love of, 251

—— processes to impart age to spurious pieces, 260

Settee, see Glossary, 27

—— upholstered, early Jacobean, at Knole, 90

Settle, see Glossary, 28, 60

—— Queen Anne style, 145, 149

Sèvres porcelain as decoration to furniture, 191

—— porcelain in harmony with furniture, 181

Shattock, Esq., T. Foster, specimens from collection of, 45

Shearer, 248

Sheraton, Thomas, and his style, 209, 241-256

—— chair (illustrated), 243

—— mechanical contrivances of his furniture, 251

—— poverty of, 248;

his opinion of Chippendale, 248

Sigerson, Dr., Dublin, specimens from collection of, 157, 206

Sixteenth-century woodwork, fine example of, 65

Spain, Renaissance in, 48

Spanish furniture (illustrated), cabinet, 51; chest, 52

Spitalfields' velvet for furniture, 147

—— weaving founded by aliens, 122

Splat, see Glossary, 28

Stothard, copy of engraving by, 231, 235

Strafford, first Earl of, chair with arms of, 94

Strapwork, see Glossary, 28

—— borrowed from Flemish designers, 64; illustrated, 61, 68

—— Elizabethan, 69

Stretche, Esq., T. E. Price, specimens from collection of, 75, 78, 97, 139, 140

Stretcher, see Glossary, 28

—— in chairs, evolution of the, 122

—— wear given to, by feet of sitters, 100

Sutton, Thomas, founder of Charterhouse Hospital, 86

Symonds, John Addington, "The Renaissance in Italy," quoted, 41

T

Table, gate-leg, see Glossary, 24

Tapestry factory established at Mortlake, 92

—— in harmony with furniture, 181

Tenon, see Glossary, 28

Terror, Reign of, vandalism during, 204

Timber split to give figure in surface, 76, 118

Transition between Gothic and Renaissance, 44, 47, 63

Turned work, see Glossary, 28

U

Upholstered chairs adopted in late Elizabethan days, 75

—— seat (William and Mary), 122

V

Vandyck at the Court of Charles I., 92

Varnish, oil, composition of, not now known, 119

—— spirit, a modern invention, 118

—— Vernis-Martin, see Glossary, 28

Veneer, see Glossary, 28

Veneered work, its adoption, 139

Veneers, woods used as, see Glossary, 29

Vernis-Martin (Martin's varnish), see Glossary, 28, 182

Versailles, sums spent upon building, 166; vandalism at, 172, 177

W

Wallace Collection, illustrations of specimens, at, 163, 171, 181, 183

Walnut period, 34

Walnut veneer, Queen Anne period, 139

Walpole, Horace, 221

Waring, Messrs., specimens from collection of, 81, 117, 119, 143, 149, 197

Watteau, 192

Wedgwood, Josiah, 247

Wellington, Duke of, collection in possession of, 209

Welsh dresser, 100

Westminster Abbey, Henry VII.'s chapel, 63

William and Mary furniture, prices realised at auction, 130

Winckelmann, 205

Woods preferred by Grinling Gibbons, 121

—— used for delicate carving by foreign schools, 116

—— used in furniture, see Glossary, 29

—— with fancy names, 29; botanical names of, 196

Woodwork, sixteenth century, fine examples of, 65

Worms, ravages of furniture, 234, 271, 274

Wren, Sir Christopher, 120

Y

Yorkshire chairs, 103

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