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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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arms were also placed upon the chimney piece; low-cushioned seats were bountifully supplied with movable cushionscovered with rich silks. Indeed, for as far back as 1200 we findsofa cushions much in favor. The chimney-piece in the I^liza-bethan room was invariably the important feature. It was inarched panels, moldings, scrolls, coats-of-arms, flowers, inter-laced strap work, supported by grotesque terminal figures,which later in the Jacobean Period became more simplified andsevere. The fireplace was large enough to admit of big logs ; thewoodwork was deep and dark and time-toned, but there was nolack of color in the use of the silken stuffs and wall-coverings oftapestry or print. The character of the wood carving was usuallyflat, and the Fifteenth Century German type of ironwork hereillustrated was often used. The heavy tables and chairs fre-quently stood upon bulging, bulky legs, borrowed from the Dutch.Ball feet were common. English stucco work of the Elizabethan period often con-
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English Period, showing the decline of^he Gothic influence and the begin-ning of the Renaissance, presenting one of the earliest turned wood chairs,examples of which were found in America among the Pilgrim settlers. The Decorative Periods 175 ^^ sisted of geometrical paneling, fan tracery^IjjpiM-1;-^ and pendentives of the preceding century.—£.. These pendentives were connected together by bands of pierced strap work, decoratedwith Arabesques in low relief. Later in theJacobean period, which is arbitrarily fixed at 1603and continued until 1649, the panels were composedof purely geometrical forms, circles, squares, loz-enges and interlacing quatrefoils. ELIiABETHAN THE Jacobean Period covered almost twenty-fiveyears, from 1603 to 1625. The Tudor mix-ture of Gothic and Renaissance was graduallymodified under the influence of Inigo Jones. Themodification simplified the shape of the furnitureand introduced classic detail, and the result of thisinfluence may be called Jacobean. The Jaco

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