. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . «ETHAv^^^^™p^-<^EDGRoin.^ Buds beiug similariy treated 1 the whole piece is Renaissance in detail, save that the lock plate is of flamboyantGothic design. A smaller but extremely interesting and rich chest isthat belonging to Mr. Seymour Lucas, The Late Gothic linen and parchemin panels of the preceding periodwere now superseded upon chests bythe Italianate Romayne work, of med-aUioned panels with profiled heads ofwarriors, women, and merchants. Amore architectural construction, basedon the Renaissance facade, fo
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . «ETHAv^^^^™p^-<^EDGRoin.^ Buds beiug similariy treated 1 the whole piece is Renaissance in detail, save that the lock plate is of flamboyantGothic design. A smaller but extremely interesting and rich chest isthat belonging to Mr. Seymour Lucas, The Late Gothic linen and parchemin panels of the preceding periodwere now superseded upon chests bythe Italianate Romayne work, of med-aUioned panels with profiled heads ofwarriors, women, and merchants. Amore architectural construction, basedon the Renaissance facade, followed—as in the Offley Chest in ColourPlate No. 8—by pilasters, caryatides,and carved and inlaid panels. Inlay,indeed, was now in some instancesdeemed sufficiently ornamental, as inthe Nonesuch Chest belonging to Pro- pokerwork chest, e. radford, esq. fessor Darwin, shown in Colour Plate No. 13. The more usual treatmentof let-in woods during Elizabethan days was, however, in bands or simplegeometrical forms, to strengthen by colour the carved PLATE XIII INLAID NONESUCH CHEST The Property of Length, 4 ft. 1 in.; height, 1 ft. 11J in.; Francis Darwin, Esu., , Cambridge depth, 1 ft llj in. Circa 1580 CARVED DRAWINGE TABLE, SHIBDEN HALL The Property of J. Listee, Esq. Length opened, 9 ft.; height, 2 ft. 10 in.; width of top, 2 ft. 10 in. Circa 1600 CARVED CHIMNEYPIECE AT CHIDDENSTONE, KENT Circa 1600 EARLIEST ENGLISH WALLPAPER, AT BORDEN HALL Circa 1680 The examples of late sixteenth century woodwork illustrated in thisplate show the real diversity of woodwork design, at a period one isapt to superficially regard as confined to crude graftings upon theGothic oak, of primitive English concepts of Renaissance detail. The Nonesuch chest, a well-preserved specimen of the inlaidcoffers, whose decorative raison detre seems to have been to handdown to posterity the outlines of the wonderful Palace of Nonesuchbuilt by Henry viii. (who supplemented native craftsme
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