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Title: The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture ..
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919
Subjects: Cabinetwork Furniture making
Publisher: Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Figure 1 Figure 2 If examples of Egyptian furniture are scarce, thefurniture of Assyria is practically non-existent, as theclimate of the latter country was not so dry or pre-servative as that of Egypt, so that all examples that-have not been wilfully destroyed have long ago perished.Many ornaments of bronze and of ivory decorationshave been discovered that have been used as mountingsto feet, ends of legs of seats, chairs, or thrones. The 24 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER bas-reliefs of the latter enables us to form a fairly ac-curate judgment of the nature and style of Assyrianfurniture, the decoration of which was of a heavier andcoarser character than that of the more elegantEgyptian ( Fig. 4 and 5 ). Forms and parts of animals
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Figure 3 were used by the Assyrians and nearly all Orientalnations as furniture decorations. The human figurewas also used, but generally in the representation ofslaves or conquered peoples, who were degraded to theposition of bearing the weight of the seat or throne ofthe monarch. The Egyptian chairs had also carvedhuman figures as captives tied under the seat. The furniture of the Hebrews was doubtless of thesame kind as the Assyrian. From the description ofKing Solomons throne it was apparently similar tothose of the Assyrian kings. It had lions for the armsupports, and had six lions in gold and ivory on thesix steps on either side of the throne. THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 25 In the manufacture of the furniture of the nationsof antiquity the principal materials were—in woods,ebony, rosewood, walnut, pine, teak, and, above all,cedar-wood; ivory, gold, silver, bronze, and electrumwere also much used for inlays and for solid mountings. The furniture and thechariots of the Greeks in

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