. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . ions. One needs but to glance at the carved details on either side ofthe chimneypiece in the double cube room to recognise the extent towhich Inigo Jones influenced Grinling Gibbon: the heads and thelarge pendant masses of fruit and foliage tied by ribbons on eitherside of chimneypiece are almost identical in conception with themasterly creations of Gibbons chisel. The detail of the ornamentaround the heads, however, remind one somewhat of those ear-shapedcurves invented by Rabel, and so grotesquely exaggerated by thelater Germ
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . ions. One needs but to glance at the carved details on either side ofthe chimneypiece in the double cube room to recognise the extent towhich Inigo Jones influenced Grinling Gibbon: the heads and thelarge pendant masses of fruit and foliage tied by ribbons on eitherside of chimneypiece are almost identical in conception with themasterly creations of Gibbons chisel. The detail of the ornamentaround the heads, however, remind one somewhat of those ear-shapedcurves invented by Rabel, and so grotesquely exaggerated by thelater German designers. The marble fireplace is of the same period, and may, or may not,be of Jones design. It is Italian in inspiration and probably inworkmanship: the steel grate and fittings are of a design in accordwith the period, and are so identified with the room that it has beendeemed wise to retain them, though undoubtedly of later manu-facture. The picture in the panel is a somewhat inferior copy of Van Dyckspainting, at Windsor, of Charles ls three children. i. IJ^dwinToJey lo BRITISH DECORATIVE FURNITURE—STUART, 1603-88 235 INLAYING The years have blended the colouring of the inlaid and stainedleafage and flowers into mellow harmonies, probably more pleasingto modern tastes than their vivid hues when new inlay. Peculiarlypicturesque is the inlaying in mother-o-pearl, bone, and ebony whichrose to popularity in England from about 1625; itsHispano - Moresque details probably resulted from theintercourse during the unsuccessful negotiations for theSpanish marriage. The Civil War and Commonwealth effectuallyintervened to damp down gay colour development, andit is not until about midway in Charles reign thatthe craft of the marqueterie cutter again revived,almost invariably upon walnut furniture, frequentlyupon an ebony ground. Both ground and patternwere now of veneer: the designs have been cut out ofboth at one operation, the pieces were fitted and gluedtogether, and afte
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