Identifier: practicalbookofp00eber (find matches)
Title: The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson McClure, Abbot, 1879-
Subjects: Furniture
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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Fig. 6. Characteristic Double Hood of William and Mary Period. drawers and cupboard. The division between the cabi-nets and stands was clearly denned by mouldings andcornice, and the stands were much like tables, with orwithout drawers in the underframing, and had five orsix legs, which were spiral-turned, C-scrolled (Fig. 4,Q), baluster- (Fig. 4, N), spindle- (Fig. 4, P), or cup-turned, flat stretchers concaved, shaped or ogeed andbun, block or inverted-cup feet. Another form of cabinet, sometimes called a presscabinet, had drawers in the lower part and was virtu-ally a cabinet set on a low chest of drawers. Cabinetsof this sort usually had a straight top but were alsofound with double hooded tops (Fig. 6), the corners andcentre occasionally being adorned with vase-shapedfinials (Key IV, 2). These cabinets generally stood on
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WILLIAM AND MARY OYSTERED AND INLAID CABINET ON STANDWITH TRUMPET TURNED LEGSBy Courtesy of Messrs. Cooper & Griffith, New York CityPLATE VI WILLIAM AND MARY 87 bun or straight bracket feet (Fig. 4, B, K, L, S, and T).A variation of this form of cabinet had doors in thelower portion as well as in the upper. The most elaborate lacquered cabinets, as in theCarolean period, had straight tops, without cornice ormouldings, intricately chased and fretted brass mountsand were usually set upon ornately carved and giltstands, not at all like the plainer table stands of othercabinets. Cabinets meant for the display of china had glasspaned doors (Key III, 2), straight or hooded tops andwere set on lower and shorter legged stands which, how-ever, resembled the supports of other cabinets andhighboys. All the forms of cabinets except the last,which was plain for obvious reasons, were frequentlycovered with elaborate decoration. BUREAU CABINETS AND SECRETARIES OR DESKS Writing furniture of this

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