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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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cal ability of the work-man. Our knowledge of Roman doings in this matteris derived from similar sources. One or two examplesof curule chairs that might have belonged to Pro-Con-suls of Gaul or elsewhere, do indeed remain, withstrange legends attached to them, and saints and mon-archs of very questionable verity or appropriateness.Upon Pompeian pictures, bronzes, etc., we must rely,without which we should be more ignorant of thesethings than of the seemingly much more perishable andfragile manufactures in glass and earthenware, or eveniron, of which such innumerable specimens exist. Wehave as many remains of Assyria as of old Rome. Thereis no doubt from the gorgeous illuminations of the 104 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER period of the lower Empire, that the furniture then inuse was, characteristically wrought, of extraordinarysplendour, gilded, incrusted, and inlaid with ivory andjewels to a degree that quite marred its artistic beauty.Of this, much purified by Italian taste, some slight
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Figure 59 traces are to be found in the Venetian works, affectedas they were in this, as in other things, by orientalneighborhood and associations. The Venetians im-proved these works, be it understood, and chastened,while they truly enriched the tawdry over decorationof the Greeks.. Their conquest in the islands and com-mercial seats in so many parts of the Byzantine Em-pire, brought them in contact with more than one pointof its character. Of constructional felicity there is al-most none in Byzantine examples of which we haveknowledge. THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 105 In Europe, in the middle ages, the character ofmobilia was ever that of current architecture, then theart to which all the other major as well as minor artswere subordinated,—that fact of their subordinationbeing one to be ever most needfully borne in mind bythe student of archaeological science and mediaeval art.We find this leading fact constantly forgotten by writ-ers on the arts. To furniture particularly, paintin

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