The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . obean period, chairs were compara-tively scarce, stools and forms being in more generaluse. These early chairs usually had arms and wereseats of great dignity. Both chairs and settles hadhigh seats and usually heavy stretchers between thelegs. Chair seats were square or almost so and chair-backs were high and perpendicular or so nearly per-pendicular that the rake was scarcely perceptible. Thetriangular seated and heavily turned chairs, whose pat-tern
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . obean period, chairs were compara-tively scarce, stools and forms being in more generaluse. These early chairs usually had arms and wereseats of great dignity. Both chairs and settles hadhigh seats and usually heavy stretchers between thelegs. Chair seats were square or almost so and chair-backs were high and perpendicular or so nearly per-pendicular that the rake was scarcely perceptible. Thetriangular seated and heavily turned chairs, whose pat-tern had been brought to England, probably by theNormans, were met with but were survivals in type. The characteristic chair of this date was the wain- JACOBEAN PERIOD 35 scot or panelled back chair (Key I, 1). These chairsprobably owed their inspiration in the first instance tochoir stalls. In Elizabethan chairs of this pattern, thetop rail bearing the cresting is within the uprights ofthe back. In Jacobean chairs the top rail caps the up-rights and is part of the cresting. These wainscotchairs (Fig. 2, b) continued to be made long after the.
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