. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . a leap without advancing,—it is to far remote agesthat the inception of the cabriole leg belongs. In much the way that Kallimachus is credited with the genesisof the Corinthian capital, is the origin ofthe cabriole leg or hoof attributed to thedesign suggested by the careless throwingof a tigers skin with its claws over astool. The supports of the oldest piece ofdecorative furniture — the seat or throneknown as that of Queen Hatshepsu (some wAmrr card table with shell AND SHAPED UNDEE-FRAMF. thousauds of ycars ) — are disti
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . a leap without advancing,—it is to far remote agesthat the inception of the cabriole leg belongs. In much the way that Kallimachus is credited with the genesisof the Corinthian capital, is the origin ofthe cabriole leg or hoof attributed to thedesign suggested by the careless throwingof a tigers skin with its claws over astool. The supports of the oldest piece ofdecorative furniture — the seat or throneknown as that of Queen Hatshepsu (some wAmrr card table with shell AND SHAPED UNDEE-FRAMF. thousauds of ycars ) — are distinctly of cabriole form. The Greeks and Chinese used forms of cabriole legsupon their furniture, strongly reminiscent of the eighteenth-centurycabriole; indeed, the Dutch during Charles days appear tohave adopted the form as a result of their trade with China. Foronce, both Holland and England would seem to have been prior toFrance in the use of the cabriole. France added its curves to therepertoire of her details in late Louis xiv. and Louis xv. WILLIAM, ANNE, AND GEORGE L—1688-1727 407
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