The decorative periods . e more famous thaneven Chippendale, who, until the appearance of his books, seemsto have been little known. In fact, his biographer in the ex-haustive Dictionary of National Biography can find little to sayof him except that he flourished about 1760. He certainly wasnot the only successful member of his craft in London, if wemay believe the following advertisement, which appeared in aNew York paper in 1771 : To morrow will be sold at public vendue a set of carved mahogany chairs The chairs were made by a person in the Jerseys whoserved his time and afterwards was eleve
The decorative periods . e more famous thaneven Chippendale, who, until the appearance of his books, seemsto have been little known. In fact, his biographer in the ex-haustive Dictionary of National Biography can find little to sayof him except that he flourished about 1760. He certainly wasnot the only successful member of his craft in London, if wemay believe the following advertisement, which appeared in aNew York paper in 1771 : To morrow will be sold at public vendue a set of carved mahogany chairs The chairs were made by a person in the Jerseys whoserved his time and afterwards was eleven years foremanto the great and eminent cabinetmaker William Hallet,who bought the fine estate of the Duke of Shandos,called Cannons in Middlesex. Now, even if the advertisement was a catch-penny scheme,it is plain that in 1771 the name of Hallet was considered a greatbait in New York. It is furthermore worth noting that we havenever seen in an American paper prior to the Revolution anymention of the name of ®^* In creating a Colonial atmosphere—be it early Colonial, andnecessarily embryotic, or late Colonial—we may assume that theroom trims, as a rule, are white. In the early days the dwellingswere low-ceilinged, the windows were small and cut into littlepanes. Such a room was not well lighted, and the white wood-work helped illuminate it. In Canterbury Tales (1400) Chaucer mentions wicker chairs ;but it may be taken as a rule that up to the end of Henry VIIIsreign (1547) furniture was usually oak. After oak came walnutfurniture, often thin veneered. In the time of Charles II(1649), beautiful inlay work was accomplished. Mahogany fur-niture came into us,^ in 1700, and Chippendale was one of thefirst cabinet-makers to use it. Sheraton introduced inlaying ofmahogany, stained wood, king wood and tulip wood. Hepple-white did considerable in painted furniture. Over-doors, over-windows and over-mantels were treated with leaded glass andfret work, especially during
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