International studio (40.1910)

Armchairs in Period Styles

JAMES II WILLIAM AND MARY QUEEN ANNE

acteristic features, however, and tendencies are well play all the ingenuity of the carver working on the

illustrated in such a group. The Elizabethan solid block, is accompanied by a further use of the

chair, again, shows that predominance of turned chisel in ornament. The toe takes on a semblance

work which makes the period, first of all, that of the of an animal's claw. The curve at the top of the

lathe. leg takes on a scroll embellishment and the top

This characteristic continues with a modification shows a more or less elaborately worked shell,

until it begins to disappear and dwindle in impor- Later styles, under the originality of individual

tance to the time of James II and until in the workmen of genius, develop in the direction of

William and Mary type it has passed out. The lightness and tapering delicacy. The ornament,

Queen Anne reliance on the shape and the use of as in Sheraton furniture, was kept subservient to

curves not based on the cylinder, but calling into the general form and constructive lines.

HEPPLE WHITE SHERATON

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