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Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut - Helen Churchill Candee
Helen Churchill Candee
Jacobean Furniture and English Styles in Oak and Walnut
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066216382
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
EARLY JACOBEAN STYLES
JACOBEAN STYLES TO CHARLES II
THE MIDDLE OF THE CENTURY
CAROLEAN STYLES OR THE RESTORATION
THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
ILLUSTRATIONS
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
EARLY JACOBEAN STYLES
Table of Contents
JAMES I CROWNED 1603
When a passion for collecting antique furniture first swept America, and prizes were plucked from attics, cellars and old barns, the eagle eye of the amateur sought only those fine pieces that were made in the age of mahogany and satin-wood. Every piece was dubbed Colonial with rash generalisation until the time when a little erudition apportioned the well-made distinctive furniture to its proper classes. Then every person of culture became expert on eighteenth century furniture, and the names of Chippendale and his prolific mates fell glibly from all lips.
That much accomplished, the collector and home-maker then threw an intelligent eye on another page of history and realised that the seventeenth century and certain bits of oak and walnut that had stood neglected, belonged to an equally interesting period of America's social development.
All at once the word Jacobean was on every tongue, as Colonial had been before. Attics, cellars and barns were searched again, this time for oak and walnut, not mahogany, and for heavy square construction, not for bandy legs and delicate restraint. It was the marvellous carved chest that first announced itself, and then a six-legged highboy, and the lower part of a thousand-legged table—which now we call a gate. These, we said with inspiration, are the gods of the first settlers; mahogany is but modern stuff.
But this time we were more savant than before, and instead of starving our eager minds on the occasional resurrected American bit, we went at once to the source, to England, and there found in abundance (for the long purse) a charming sequence of styles covering all the times of our earlier history as settlers and colonisers. Thus were we able to identify these strange early pieces of our own and to recognise our quarry when found in a dusty corner.
That very old pieces still are found, pieces brought over here in the days of their mode, is proved to any collector. In two towns on Long Island Sound I recently found for sale two six-legged highboys, William and Mary, and that great rarity, a straight oak chair known as a Farthingale