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Title: The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson McClure, Abbot, 1879-
Subjects: Furniture
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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es, etc., in a simple figureoften repeated. It is generally used in friezes or as adecoration for flat surfaces: Strapwork, an ornament of an architectural origin(Fig. 13; 8 and Fig. 1, frieze) consisting of narrowfillets or bands folded and crossed or interlaced insundry patterns and repeats: Cabochon and Cartouche. Similar in a measureto strapwork is cabochon and cartouche work (Fig. 14;3) in which there is an alternating succession ofcartouches and decorated or bossed roundels: Lunettes or half-circle patterns (Fig. 14; 6 andFig. 11) more or less elaborate and floriated and oftenrepeated in a long line were much favoured: Tulip. The tulip either (Fig. 14; 12 and 5) naturalor conventionalised was a frequent motif of Jacobeanornament: Heart. A conventionalised heart-shaped device(Fig. 10) lent itself to agreeable treatment in repeats asa frieze and is often met with in pieces of the forepartof the seventeenth century: Rose. Quite apart from political considerations JACOBEAN PERIOD 61
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Fig. 13. Characteristic Forms of Jacobean Ornamentation. 1. Quartered Tulip.2. Rose and Conventional S. Scrolls. 3. Ordinary Patterns of Jacobean (early) Inlayand Marqueterie. 4. Conventional Foliage Border. 5. Palmated Strapwork. 6.Channelling. 7. Carved Guilloche Panel and Gouged Pilasters. 8. Strapwork. 9.Nulled Cornice. 10. Egg and Dart Moulding. 11. Channelling. 12. Cup andCover Bulbous Table Leg; Gadroon Cover, Fluted Cup. 13. Reeding (raised fromsurface). 14. Spiral Turning. 15 and 16. Specimens of Jacobean Pillar Turning. 62 PRACTICAL BOOK OF PERIOD FURNITURE which made it a popular decorative detail in Tudortimes, the rose (Fig. 11 and Fig. 13, 2 and 7) proveditself so valuable as a species of ornament that it al-ways remained in high favour and is repeatedly foundunder varying modified but always recognisable forms: Acanthus. The popularity of the acanthus leaf(Fig. 5, legs) as a decorative pattern is due not onlyto its inherent grace and beauty but also to its flexibilityan

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