The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . slightly later form had slanttop, three drawers below and short cabriole legs (KeyV, 9). Towards the end of the period there were writ-ing or library tables with tiers of drawers at each sideextending to the floor and the central part open for thelegs of the sitter. CUPBOARDS Cupboards, three-cornered (Plate VIII, p. 102) andstraight, were favourite pieces of furniture and receivedmuch attention in the way of ornamentation. There 120 PRACTICAL BOOK OF
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . slightly later form had slanttop, three drawers below and short cabriole legs (KeyV, 9). Towards the end of the period there were writ-ing or library tables with tiers of drawers at each sideextending to the floor and the central part open for thelegs of the sitter. CUPBOARDS Cupboards, three-cornered (Plate VIII, p. 102) andstraight, were favourite pieces of furniture and receivedmuch attention in the way of ornamentation. There 120 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE were also hanging corner cupboards. In corner cup-boards the doors were sometimes circular fronted, sothat the whole piece of furniture filled a quarter circle(Plate IX, p. 112). Tops of cupboards of all varietieswere both straight and shaped (see Fig. 15). Plate IX,p. 112, shows a good example of what was known asarchitects furniture, large pieces designed with adistinctly architectural feeling. This tendency to ar-chitectural detail was noticeable in much of the largecabinet work. Broken and scroll pediments as well as. Fig. 15. Typical Forms of Interrupted Hoods or Broken Curved Pediments. straight pediments also occur (Fig. 15). A divisionis ordinarily made between the upper and lower sec-tions, the lower having a door or doors with a drawerabove and the upper having only a door or doors oftaller dimension. The upper portion was often glazedwith square panes. BUFFETS AND DRESSERS Long buffets or dressers were made with the char-acteristic cabriole legs, club feet and shaped were made both without and with an upper partcontaining open shallow shelves for platters and plate
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