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Title: The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Foley, Edwin
Subjects: Furniture Decoration and ornament
Publisher: London : T.C. and E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ere freely employed bothupon fm-niture such as the Olfley Chest in Southwark Cathedral, shown in Colour PlateNo. 8, and the remarkabletable made for BuildingBess of Hardwicke, tocommemorate her mar-riage to her fourth hus-band, the Earl of Slirews-bury in 1568, and themarriage of her son anddaughter with a daughterand son of the Earl ofShrewsbury. Lutes, re-becks, viols, cyterrnes,sackbuts, nude figures,the arms of the Talbots,Cavendishs, and Hard- roun PAXEL.S of romayne -work representing two women in wickes, strapWOrk, etc, COIFFED HEAD-DRESSES, AND TWO MERCHANTS WEARING LOOPED-UP I» 1 BIRETTAS, FURRED AMICE.S, AND SHORT RUFFS. FROM CARVED OAK arC DUt SOme OI thC PANELLING OF TUDOR PERIOD DISCOVERED IN AN OLD HOUSE IN „ ) * J. J • THE HIGH STREET, SALISBLTSV, OCCUPIED BV MR. FRED. SUTTON. maUy lOmiS depiCted ITi coloured woods upon this interesting table. A greater use of Renaissance constructional features is veryobservable in decorative furniture of this more elaborate type.
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TUDOR JOKERS IN WOOD The humorist of the pre-Punch period, denied the wide publicityof the modern press, would at times perpetrate his conceits in the PLATE XII CARVED AND INLAID OAK COURT CUPBOARD The Property of Mbs. Henry Branston, Length, 6 ft. 8 in.; height, 6 ft. 1 in.; The Friary, Newark depth, 2 ft 1 iu. Though bearing the date 1605, and thus—to be chronologically exact—just on the Stuart side of the style-boundary, this cupboard is,save in this respect and in its twist-turned posts, so typical of theLate Tudor period, that its inclusion thereunder needs little apology. The craftsmanship shown in the construction is evidence of thetechnical improvement which English joinery by the end ofElizabeths reign exhibits; not a joint has given. The doors arerule-jointed, i.e. rounded at their junctions with the end posts, whichare hollowed out for their reception. The stringing and other inlays are of box and holly (slightlystained, one is inclined to think, when the piece was made

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