The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . Fig. 6. Back and Leg of Chair typical of Late William and Mary and Early Queen Anne Epoch. a fiddle. Then, again, there are instances of two suchsharp curving breaks (Fig. 6) in each upright insteadof the customary one. We sometimes find double-railhooped backs (Key V, 5) where the splat terminates ina hooped cresting and above this, quite separate fromit, is another hooped top rail connecting with the up-right. In the New England and New York rush-bo
The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods . Fig. 6. Back and Leg of Chair typical of Late William and Mary and Early Queen Anne Epoch. a fiddle. Then, again, there are instances of two suchsharp curving breaks (Fig. 6) in each upright insteadof the customary one. We sometimes find double-railhooped backs (Key V, 5) where the splat terminates ina hooped cresting and above this, quite separate fromit, is another hooped top rail connecting with the up-right. In the New England and New York rush-bot-tomed chairs with straight turned legs, Spanish feetand turned stretchers, the pronouncedly Dutch formof back, with the uprights of unbroken line (Fig. 8, B), 108 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE was usually found. The banister-back, being a vigorousand virile type, persisted for a time. At different dates the splats displayed variationsin form, but an approximation to the fiddle shape wasalways traceable. Nearly all of the early splats wereplain, often covered with veneer of burr walnut. Later,in the decorated period (see Introductio
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