. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . BRITISH DECORATIVE FURNITURE—STUART, 1603-88 201 fashions so long that they had become natural to him, but largenumbers of Stuart adherents, who had perforce shared his exile, hadacquired the same tastes, during their sojourn on the Continent. The demand for new furniture must have been pressing on thepart of these proscribed Royalists, who now returned to their nativeland; since even those who were so fortunate as to recover theirestates and homes, found such of their furniture asyet remained, either irretrievably damaged or b
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . BRITISH DECORATIVE FURNITURE—STUART, 1603-88 201 fashions so long that they had become natural to him, but largenumbers of Stuart adherents, who had perforce shared his exile, hadacquired the same tastes, during their sojourn on the Continent. The demand for new furniture must have been pressing on thepart of these proscribed Royalists, who now returned to their nativeland; since even those who were so fortunate as to recover theirestates and homes, found such of their furniture asyet remained, either irretrievably damaged or butclumsy in their eye compared with that of INDO-PORTUGUESE FURNITURE Adding to the many new elements at the decorativewoodworkers command, Bombay—not only a port forIndian produce, but a species of clearing house to which thtjmbstocks, LITTLECOTE HALL, the Dutch traders to the Far East resorted—was part for coNFiNiNa PRISONERS DURING of the dowry oi Catherine of Braganza, Charles ii. s , and after her arrival with her suite, much Indo-Portuguesefurniture, of ebony or blackwood, richly carved and with twistedcolumns, was imported. Evelyn, who was presented by Charles a chair of this make, and somewhat similar in design to thatshown in our Coloui Plate No. XXXV., tells us that the queen broughtover with her such Indian Cabinets as never has been seen the decorative furniture of later Carolean days is not entirelydominated by continental woodwork, though the Restoration gaveEngland not only a queen, court, and manners a la Frangaise, but, onemight almost say, a French king, for Charles ii.
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