. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . LES I. WALL-PAPER LINING OF A BIBLE-BOX. (Property of dr. guthrie.) 192 DECORATIVE FURNITURE for authority, examination for acceptance, and abstract beauty forsymbolism and parable. Witli Tnigo Jones as interpreter during the earlier, and Sir Chris-^ topher Wren during the latter part of our period,England, gradually laying aside her Elizabethantastes, commenced an architectural flirtation,rudely interrupted by the Ci^dl War andCommonwealth, with purer phases of the classicrevival. The period is conveniently divisible in thesty
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . LES I. WALL-PAPER LINING OF A BIBLE-BOX. (Property of dr. guthrie.) 192 DECORATIVE FURNITURE for authority, examination for acceptance, and abstract beauty forsymbolism and parable. Witli Tnigo Jones as interpreter during the earlier, and Sir Chris-^ topher Wren during the latter part of our period,England, gradually laying aside her Elizabethantastes, commenced an architectural flirtation,rudely interrupted by the Ci^dl War andCommonwealth, with purer phases of the classicrevival. The period is conveniently divisible in thestyles of its furniture—as well as architecturallyand politically—into three sections :— I. 1603-1649, from the commencement of the reign of James England until the end of Charles i.,—the period towhich the term Jacobean is often restricted,and during which the furniture which weregard as typically Jacobean was 1649-1660. The period of the 1660-1688. From the arrival of Charles ii. tothe arrival of William of
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