. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . LATE CAROLEAX CUPBOARD. The type seems tohave suflEiced until the Welsh especially attached themselves to theform now known as the Welsh dresser, of which an illustration isshown in Colour Plate No. XXIX. When the Elizabethan simple geometrical forms were abandoned ininlay, they were adopted and elaborated in geometrically patternedmany mitred mouldings upon the panels of drawers and doors uponsuch pieces as Sir George Donaldsons dresser; indeed, this enrich- 226 DECORATIVE FURNITURE. rXLAID CABIJTET FROM LINLITH-GOW P.\LACE. N
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . LATE CAROLEAX CUPBOARD. The type seems tohave suflEiced until the Welsh especially attached themselves to theform now known as the Welsh dresser, of which an illustration isshown in Colour Plate No. XXIX. When the Elizabethan simple geometrical forms were abandoned ininlay, they were adopted and elaborated in geometrically patternedmany mitred mouldings upon the panels of drawers and doors uponsuch pieces as Sir George Donaldsons dresser; indeed, this enrich- 226 DECORATIVE FURNITURE. rXLAID CABIJTET FROM LINLITH-GOW P.\LACE. NOW IX ROYALSCOTTISH MUSEUM, EDINBURGH. ment is a characteristic feature of the laterCarolean and other late seventeenth - centuryfurniture. DRESSERS appear towards the end of Charles derived from, they distinctly diflferfrom, the dressoir form of the Continent andthe preceding period — having usually deepdiawers below, panelled with geometricalpatterns, and on turned legs, with shelvesabove for trenchers and hooks for cups, infashion similar to the present-day fixed kitchendressers: small side cupboards being addeda few years later. The Chinese cupboardor cabinet with its glass doors, made itsappearance in Charles days, an evidenceof the trend toward lighter modes of Caroleanfurniture STUART CHESTS did not for some time presentmarked differences from thoseof Tudor times; the chest,indeed, as a decorative box-receptacle for storage, wasfalling from its position of pre-eminence into comparative dis-
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