. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . periwigs of theperiod encouraged the employment of high-backedchairs and settees. One finds the stufibver up-holstered seats were even higher than the cane chairswhich they succeeded or supplemented. One of the earliest examples of English upholstery,the identical chair at Knole used by James i., is shownin Colour Plate XV. It is depicted in the kingsportrait by Mytens—the painter also of that enter-taining little fire-eater, Jeffrey Hudson, the 18-inchdwarf who was first presented to the queen in aOAK RESTORATION ^^M pie. At t
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . periwigs of theperiod encouraged the employment of high-backedchairs and settees. One finds the stufibver up-holstered seats were even higher than the cane chairswhich they succeeded or supplemented. One of the earliest examples of English upholstery,the identical chair at Knole used by James i., is shownin Colour Plate XV. It is depicted in the kingsportrait by Mytens—the painter also of that enter-taining little fire-eater, Jeffrey Hudson, the 18-inchdwarf who was first presented to the queen in aOAK RESTORATION ^^M pie. At thirty, Hudson quickly added twenty-cH.\iB m HAMILTON ggyeu inches to his stature, and in a duel killed his ROOM, HOLYROOD PALACE, EDINBURGH, oppouont, wlio had come armed with a squirt inderision. These chairs, which might with equal certitude be placedat the commencement of the Stuart period as at the conclusion ofthe Elizabethan, possess a pathetic dignity in their tarnished andfaded velvet coverings, with their knotted and fringed threads of goldand ALLWOOD CHAIRS Proof of the ceremonial attribute of the chair is given by thefact that no sets of chairs appear to have been made in Englanduntil the end of Elizabeths reign: a point well worth remembrancewhen to any set of chairs or part of a set is ascribed a pre-Jacobean date. BRITISH DECORATIVE FURNITURE—STUART, 1603-88 213 The Commonwealth was upon the whole a good friend to thechair-maker, since the Cromwell chairs brought over from Hollandin such quantities swept aside the last vestige of etiquette of theseat; henceforth Jack and his master could both be seated uponchairs of identical pattern, without any world-cataclysm occurring.
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