The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . sted, and as its use is souniversal it seems impossible to avoid employing it. JACOBEAN PERIOD 47 i /? v. Bread and Cheese Cupboards were bulky pieces offurniture sometimes divided into upper and lower com-partments and were meant for the storage of the house-hold larder. Almeries were receptacles similar to livery cup-boards, and were intended to putdoles into for pensioners orfamily retainers. Court Cupboards, literallyshort cupboards (Key I, 4), we
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . sted, and as its use is souniversal it seems impossible to avoid employing it. JACOBEAN PERIOD 47 i /? v. Bread and Cheese Cupboards were bulky pieces offurniture sometimes divided into upper and lower com-partments and were meant for the storage of the house-hold larder. Almeries were receptacles similar to livery cup-boards, and were intended to putdoles into for pensioners orfamily retainers. Court Cupboards, literallyshort cupboards (Key I, 4), wereoriginally small cupboards seton sidetables. Afterwards thetwo were combined into onepiece and the lower part, origin-ally but a table, was fitted some-times with shelves, sometimeswith doors, making a lower cup-board. The upper part was be-decked with pillars supporting anornate corniced top. The other va-rieties of cupboards consisted ofstraightforward rectangular car-case work without any pretenseat architectural character. Cabinets on high stands withcarved or spiral turned legs werecharacteristic of late Caroleantimes (Key I, 5).. Fig. 7. Jacobean Small OakCupboard, c. 1670. Totalheight, 5 feet 8 inches. By Courtesy of Mr. R. , Philadelphia. BUFFETS, DRESSERS AND SIDEBOARDS The buffet, the dresser (Fig. 9), the sideboard (), and all the other prototypes of that useful and nowuniversal article of dining-room furniture were evolved 48 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE from modifications of the table or cupboard, or both,and flourished mightily in numbers and in sundryguises all during the Stuart period. But little removed from the court cupboard in typewas the buffet meant for the display of plate and alsofor convenience in serving. It was a heavy table placedagainst the wall with a superstructure on pillars, butwithout any cupboard. Akin to the buffet was thedresser (Fig. 9), with a cupboard in the lower part and
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