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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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upports with claw and ball,or other appropriate form of foot. In the French period the bombe form of clothes pressswelled out to portentous dimensions in the lower part. SMALL FURNITURE The small furniture of the Chippendale period con-sisted of candle stands (Plate XIX, p. 174), cellarettes,barometer cases, fire screens (Key IX, 5 and 7), basonstands (Plate XIV, p. 148), hanging shelves, and agreat variety of other small conveniences which the in-creasing culture of the time demanded. The candlestands and most of the fire screens belonged to thegenus of tripod furniture, and were generally wroughtwith care and elaboration. The candle stands weremade in the modes of all four phases, while the firescreens were generally confined in style to the Englishor later French modes. Hanging shelves were usually carved or fretted, andsome of them are extremely graceful and beautiful. MIRRORS Mirrors in the Chippendale period exist in a greatvariety of forms. Two kinds especially must be noticed.
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CHIPPENDALE FRETTED GALLERY TABLE, HANGING CABINET, CANDLE STAND AND .ESOP GILT MIRROR (All are of authentic Chippendale origin) By Courtesy of Richard A. Canfield, Esq., New York City PLATE XIX CHIPPENDALE 175 The oblong mirror in mahogany frame with frettedscroll top and base, and sometimes the addition ofgilded ornament, is met with in great numbers on bothsides of the Atlantic (Key XIX, 1 and 3). The other form of mirror frame in which the Chip-pendale craftsmen particularly delighted was elab-orated to the last degree. It was highly carved in allmanner of fantastic designs (Fig. 1; Plates XIV, p. 148and XIX, p. 174), often with subjects taken fromJEsops Fables, or with intricate Chinese patterns, andwas then heavily gilt. Both types of mirrors remained in favour longafter newer furniture forms had supplanted recognisedChippendale styles for other objects of householdequipment. CLOCKCASES Tall clockcases were designed to accord with otherarticles of furniture in use at this period

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