The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . Fig. 7. Jacobean Small OakCupboard, c. 1670. Totalheight, 5 feet 8 inches. By Courtesy of Mr. R. , Philadelphia. BUFFETS, DRESSERS AND SIDEBOARDS The buffet, the dresser (Fig. 9), the sideboard (), and all the other prototypes of that useful and nowuniversal article of dining-room furniture were evolved 48 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE from modifications of the table or cupboard, or both,and flourished mightily in numbers and in sundr
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . Fig. 7. Jacobean Small OakCupboard, c. 1670. Totalheight, 5 feet 8 inches. By Courtesy of Mr. R. , Philadelphia. BUFFETS, DRESSERS AND SIDEBOARDS The buffet, the dresser (Fig. 9), the sideboard (), and all the other prototypes of that useful and nowuniversal article of dining-room furniture were evolved 48 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE from modifications of the table or cupboard, or both,and flourished mightily in numbers and in sundryguises all during the Stuart period. But little removed from the court cupboard in typewas the buffet meant for the display of plate and alsofor convenience in serving. It was a heavy table placedagainst the wall with a superstructure on pillars, butwithout any cupboard. Akin to the buffet was thedresser (Fig. 9), with a cupboard in the lower part and. Fig. 8. Jacobean Oak Sideboard, c. 1665. Showing Flemish influence in geo-metrically panelled drawer fronts and applied ornament; also spirally turned , 6 feet 6 inches; height, 34 inches. By Courtesy of Mr. R. W. Lehne, Philadelphia. a back with open shelves. This type was probably ofWelsh or Yorkshire origin, known in Wales as acwpwedd tridarn, and persisted well into the eigh-teenth century. Another type was the heavy low tablewith deep drawers (Fig. 8), very like the sideboard thatcame into fashion late in the eighteenth century. MIRRORS In the early Jacobean days, though men and womenwere not a whit less vain of their personal appearancethan are their descendants, mirrors were not common. JACOBEAN PERIOD 49 They were small, for large pieces of glass were notmade, and were set in heavy frames. It was not tilltowards the latter part of the seventeenth century,when English-made glass was obtainable, that mirrors
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