. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . rm,and its curves were becoming standardised for the ensuing fifty years use. TURNINGS Though the almost bewildering com-plexity and interminglings of shapes whichoccur in the previous period were to yieldto simpler forms and the cabriole, the changeis not immediately notice-able. Octagonal posts andDETAILS FROM CHAIR. BRixwoRTH Icgs QjVG uiore cnaracter-^*- istic of the style, but spiral turnery still persisted and a few specimensof square work are encountered. Inverted cuplike shapes were as much sign-manuals of William and A
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . rm,and its curves were becoming standardised for the ensuing fifty years use. TURNINGS Though the almost bewildering com-plexity and interminglings of shapes whichoccur in the previous period were to yieldto simpler forms and the cabriole, the changeis not immediately notice-able. Octagonal posts andDETAILS FROM CHAIR. BRixwoRTH Icgs QjVG uiore cnaracter-^*- istic of the style, but spiral turnery still persisted and a few specimensof square work are encountered. Inverted cuplike shapes were as much sign-manuals of William and Anne turnery, as thebulbous forms of their predecessors had been ofElizabethan and Stuart times, and formed themost prominent member, whether placed overoctagonal or round tapering shafts. Deep rails were provided upon the under-frame of tables, chairs, and stands—mainly, oneventures to think, that they might be shapedinto the typical curves of the period. During William and Mary and Annes daystied stretcher framing was in vogue, but was william asd maky decreasingly used from the days of George i. BRIXWORTH STUFFED SEAT. 408 DECORATIVE EUKMTLRE MOULDINGS ,.;. throughout the period continued to be classic, freely ovolo frieze was almost as invariably used upon straight-cornicedcabinets of early William and Mary days, as upon those of lateStuart. Broad bevelled mouldings, which had commenced during thelatter part of the Stuart period, and were much employed by Wrenin his city church-fittings, were among the few details common to both architectural woodwork fittings anddecorative furniture, being frequentlyfinished at the top with ogival or otherarch forms of shapings. Though pediments, both straight andshaped, were in vogue upon the bureausand cabinets, even more characteristic arehooded cornices (of the fashion seen in thebureau secretaire illustrated in Colour PlateNo. L.) surmounting shaped headed doors:a
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