The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . ds of established prec-edent, he retained and constantly made use of certainfeatures employed by his predecessors. One of these was the cabriole, or bandy leg (KeyVI, 1, 2 and 9 and VII, 5 and 6), the introduction ofwhich some have mistakenly ascribed to Chippendale,while others have altogether ignored his frequent useof it,—for his more expensive chairs he used it almostaltogether, as the drawings in his book of publisheddesigns will prove,—choosing
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . ds of established prec-edent, he retained and constantly made use of certainfeatures employed by his predecessors. One of these was the cabriole, or bandy leg (KeyVI, 1, 2 and 9 and VII, 5 and 6), the introduction ofwhich some have mistakenly ascribed to Chippendale,while others have altogether ignored his frequent useof it,—for his more expensive chairs he used it almostaltogether, as the drawings in his book of publisheddesigns will prove,—choosing to consider only hisstraight-legged chairs and tables; though how theycould close their eyes to the innumerable cabriole repre-sentatives is a mystery. Another feature that he retained and elaborated CHIPPENDALE 149 was the general outline of the splat in splat, or panel, that had commonly been solid inthe chairs of the Queen Anne period, showing piercingsor perforations as the Early Georgian epoch advanced,he cut into interlacing or fretted patterns (Key VI, 1,3, 5, 7 and 8). In this work, too, he retained and elabo-. Fiq. 1. Carved and Gilt Chippendale Courtesy of Augustus Van Cortlandt, Jr., Sharon, Conn. rated the C and S scrolls (Plate XIV, p. 148) that theQueen Anne chairmakers had employed so method of adapting and introducing these scrollsshowed both originality and ingenuity. So constantlyand persistently did he use these that Isaac Ware, aKings Surveyor and an ardent disciple of the Inigo 150 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE Jones school, wrote: It is our misfortune to see, atthis time, an unmeaning scrawl of Cs, inverted andlooped together, taking the place of Greek and RomanElegance, even in our most inexpensive decorations. Itis called the French, and let them have the praise of it;the Gothic Shafts, and Chinese, are not beyond it, norbelow it, in poorness of imagination. There can be little doubt that Chippendale, w
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