The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . ngs, sphinx heads, griffins, acanthus,pineapples, melons, cornucopias with various fruits andflowers, spirals, reeding, and honeysuckle of the classictype. STRUCTURE In structure Empire furniture was exceedingly sub-stantial and solid. The carcase work was almost uni-versally rectilinear. Chairs, when not braced withstretchers, were usually so staunchly made, and of suchsolid proportions, that they have well withstood thewear and tear of time. As poin
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . ngs, sphinx heads, griffins, acanthus,pineapples, melons, cornucopias with various fruits andflowers, spirals, reeding, and honeysuckle of the classictype. STRUCTURE In structure Empire furniture was exceedingly sub-stantial and solid. The carcase work was almost uni-versally rectilinear. Chairs, when not braced withstretchers, were usually so staunchly made, and of suchsolid proportions, that they have well withstood thewear and tear of time. As pointed out in the sectionon chairs, top rails were sometimes dowelled to theuprights and sometimes included between them. MOUNTS The ordinary mounts found in Empire furniturewere either of brass or glass; pressed-glass knobs wereextremely popular and designs of various patterns wereused, the knob either being mounted in metal or held inplace by a metal rod running through and bolted on theinside of the door or drawer. Brass mounts were some-times round and chased, but more usually were of thelion-head type with a ring hanging from the * v^ 7 *t, U B ? ^ 1 1 ^-^. ?••i
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