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Title: The decorative periods
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935
Subjects: Furniture Decoration and ornament Interior decoration
Publisher: New York, Clifford & Lawton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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examples in the early furniture that Chippendale tookfor his models. They were not people to follow the poetic ten-dencies. They took their art with serious observance and workedit out in a dignified form. It must be recalled that the reputa-tion of Flemish decorative work has rested very largely on thework of the wood carvers, and it is fair to presume that this workmust have been of excellent character. F^or years old oak wasused, but later, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries par-ticularly, other woods came in, and inlays of broad and floridstyle followed to vary the monotony of the dull old oak. Throughout its varied history (and it is beyond the provinceof this book to go into the history of Flanders) it has clung to itsearlier traditions, and although a great deal of the Flemish workthat we see shows traces of the French, Sj^anish and Austrianinfluences, there is native character in all I-lcmish work whichthe political changes of the country never seem to have affected.
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l600. FLEMISH CARVED WORK AND JACOBEAN PANEL WORK The Decorative Periods i53 Tae intluences exercised by Flemish art throughout allEurope were paramount. The towns of Arras, Valenciennes,Tournay, Oudenarde, Lille and Ikussels were the centres ofworld-famed manufactures of tapestries. Indeed, Arras becameso famous that everything in the nature of a curtain was calledan Arras. The workers in tapestry formed a most distinguished andeminent class. We can go back to idco, before any othernationundertook the encouragement of the Renaissance in art, and findthat the Flemish, now generally classed under the category ofDatch, were pre-eminently first in the arts and the manufacturesof all Euro()c ; and to this day we find the Flemish influence notonly in England, but in Spain and France, for Flanders was suc-cessively under the domination of Spanish and French rule. The terms Dutch and Flemish are used so frequently assynonyms that it is well to understand the reason. The Netherlands, or Low C

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