The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . creased in height with the increas-ing height of ceilings and was frequently surmountedby pediments, unbroken, broken, rounded, swan-neckor, better still, to invent a term, serpentine or bow, allof them, however, of flatter contour than those oc-curring in later times. With the increased use of ma-hogany in the latter part of the period, structuretended to become lighter. CHAIRS The typical Queen Anne chair is a distinct andstrongly characteristic pie
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . creased in height with the increas-ing height of ceilings and was frequently surmountedby pediments, unbroken, broken, rounded, swan-neckor, better still, to invent a term, serpentine or bow, allof them, however, of flatter contour than those oc-curring in later times. With the increased use of ma-hogany in the latter part of the period, structuretended to become lighter. CHAIRS The typical Queen Anne chair is a distinct andstrongly characteristic piece of furniture not to beconfounded with anything else. It is also a singularly QUEEN ANNE AND EARLY GEORGIAN 105 beautiful and graceful creation and exceedingly com-fortable. It has cabriole legs and a fiddle-splatted,hooped and spooned> back (Key V, 7 and 10; Fig. 4).The uprights of the back, a few inches above the seat,break at a sharp angle and curve in towards the splatonly to swell out again in a graceful, sweeping curve atthe top, which goes over in a bow without break of lineto the other upright (Fig. 4). Variations there were,.
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