. American homes and gardens. sources, but resolved by his taste into a harmonious whole. The effect is so completethat his furniture needs nofurther enrichment by inlayor painting. Not only werehis chairs serviceable, butthe workmanship and carv-ing was wonderful, rich ineffect and beautiful detail. The ornaments on the cab-riole legs and frame are asdelicate as those in the back,while the proportions ofboth are equally well bal-anced. When Heppelwhite issuedhis book of design in 1789,his light and attractive pat-terns quickly caught the pop-ular fancy. They were lessstrong and durable thanth
. American homes and gardens. sources, but resolved by his taste into a harmonious whole. The effect is so completethat his furniture needs nofurther enrichment by inlayor painting. Not only werehis chairs serviceable, butthe workmanship and carv-ing was wonderful, rich ineffect and beautiful detail. The ornaments on the cab-riole legs and frame are asdelicate as those in the back,while the proportions ofboth are equally well bal-anced. When Heppelwhite issuedhis book of design in 1789,his light and attractive pat-terns quickly caught the pop-ular fancy. They were lessstrong and durable thanthose of Chippendale, butthey had a beauty of formand wealth of ornamenta-tion, as Heppelwhite usednot only carving of the mostdelicate and exquisite descrip-tion, but also inlay andpainting. He also intro-duced japanning, after thestyle of Vernis sacrificedstrength and durability toproduce light and artistic ef-fect. His chairs may be dis- adder-back Chippendale chair 184 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1913. Chair of Chippendales second period tinguished by their shield-shaped backs,oval, heart-shaped, and sometimessquare ones, each of his styles beingentirely different from those ofChippendale. A typical Heppelwhite chair,with shield-shaped back, adornedwith carving of feathers, is in theWilliam West family collection atSalem, Massachusetts. These threefeathers represent the crest of thePrince of Wales, and were muchin evidence during the illness ofGeorge III. Heppelwhite musthimself have belonged to thePrinces party, and the movementin favor of this party must havebeen immensely popular, to judgefrom the frequency of the featherornament in the works of bothHeppelwhite and Sheraton. The shield-shaped back is one ofthe most popular of Heppelwhitesmodels. They were all very deli-cate and graceful, and those whichdid not show the three featherswere decorated with carved drap-ery, with wheat ears, or the bell Chippendale chair with cabriole legs Chippendale chai
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