The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . AMERICAN EMPIRE PAINTED AND PARCEL GILT FLAP-TOP TABLE By Courtesy of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia. AMERICAN EMPIRE MAHOGANY INLAID TILT-TOP PEDESTAL TABLE In Possession of Harold D. Eberlein, Esq. PLATE XXXIX <• AMERICAN EMPIRE 287 dulness and uncouth heaviness in both design and de-tail. Some of the earlier pieces, made while there wasstill an afterglow of Sheraton light, are full of graceand refinement, while some of the later product of
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . AMERICAN EMPIRE PAINTED AND PARCEL GILT FLAP-TOP TABLE By Courtesy of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia. AMERICAN EMPIRE MAHOGANY INLAID TILT-TOP PEDESTAL TABLE In Possession of Harold D. Eberlein, Esq. PLATE XXXIX <• AMERICAN EMPIRE 287 dulness and uncouth heaviness in both design and de-tail. Some of the earlier pieces, made while there wasstill an afterglow of Sheraton light, are full of graceand refinement, while some of the later product of thesame style is totally devoid of inspiration and depress-ingly cloddish. The only thing favourable that canbe said for it is that material and workmanship wereboth of the best. Consequently American Empire furni-ture is of various degrees of merit, in great measurecorresponding to the date of manufacture. Under one phase or another the fashion lasted tillabout the middle of the century, but its last decadentstages, dating from a time when all artistic apprecia-tion was fast sinking to its lowest ebb, were clumsy andgraceless in the extreme, with large vulgar and mean-ingless scrolls highly suggestive of the convolutions ofsquirming, fat ea
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