The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . S3? Is- \ Fiq. 11. High Double Chest, with chamfered and fluted pilaster corners and straight bracket feet. chamfered edge delicately fluted. When the cornerswere not chamfered they were frequently adorned withfluted pilasters and carved capitals or, in later pieces,with narrow fretted panels. The tops were sometimesstraight, sometimes surmounted with rounded brokenpediments formed from a hooded cornice centred in a 116 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNIT
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . S3? Is- \ Fiq. 11. High Double Chest, with chamfered and fluted pilaster corners and straight bracket feet. chamfered edge delicately fluted. When the cornerswere not chamfered they were frequently adorned withfluted pilasters and carved capitals or, in later pieces,with narrow fretted panels. The tops were sometimesstraight, sometimes surmounted with rounded brokenpediments formed from a hooded cornice centred in a 116 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE graceful vase fmial, with flnials at corners to match,or with pediments of other character in use at the pe-riod (Fig. 15; Plate IX, p. 112). The edges of drawers,instead of being flush with the stiles and rails, fre-quently overlapped slightly and no half round mould-ings or beads were used in such cases. The lower partof these chests usually had three drawers and the upperfour, the topmost space being divided for two or threesmall drawers. The ordinary low chests with a liftinglid (Fig. 12) were in constant use, but were not made to. Fig. 12. Queen Anne Low Chest with Courtesy of Mr. A. F. C. Bateman, Philadelphia. any great extent after about 1740. Some of these lowchests in the Colonies had movable bases and weremeant to be carried on the backs of sumpter mules andhorses. Such chests were also made to be set one ontop of another. These low chests, particularly inAmerica, were apt to have a till and a secret drawerinside at one end and some of them had one or twodrawers at the bottom. For both chests of drawersand chests straight bracket feet were customarily used,although occasionally bun feet are found, as well aschamfered bracket feet. QUEEN ANNE AND EARLY GEORGIAN 117 HIGHBOYS AND LOWBOYS The age of Queen Anne is essentially an age ofgraceful highboys and lowboys (Key IV, 1 and 3).Fortunately they were made in great number and agoodly percentage has come d
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