The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . back (Fig. 1, 3), arebut modifications of these. The tops of the shield-backchairs are of two shapes—either serpentine (Key XI,1) or with a slight unbroken bowed curve like the topof a crusaders shield (Fig. 2, E). The latter form isnot common. i Honeysuckle backs are found in boththe oval and hoop forms (Plate XXVI, p. 210). Hepplewhite backs do not usually join the rearseat rail but are supported by the extension of the backlegs rising above the sea
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . back (Fig. 1, 3), arebut modifications of these. The tops of the shield-backchairs are of two shapes—either serpentine (Key XI,1) or with a slight unbroken bowed curve like the topof a crusaders shield (Fig. 2, E). The latter form isnot common. i Honeysuckle backs are found in boththe oval and hoop forms (Plate XXVI, p. 210). Hepplewhite backs do not usually join the rearseat rail but are supported by the extension of the backlegs rising above the seat and curved slightly inward(Key XI, 1, 2 and 3; Fig. 1; 2 and 3; and Fig. 2, allexcept D). Shield-back chairs are either balustered(Fig. 1, 3; and Fig. 2, E) or barred (Key XI, 1), havingusually frve carved and curving balusters or bars con-verging to a semi-circular rise in the bottom of theshield or else have some form of central pierced splat(Fig. 2, A, G, H and 7). In some instances the shield GEORGE HEPPLEWHITE 213 back has only three bars (Fig. 2, C) and in the bow-topped shields the bars do not curve but are vertical(Fig. 2,E)..
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