Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture

by Arthur Hayden

INDEX

• Adam style table, [186]
• America, the Windsor chair acclimatised in, [246]
• America, spindle-back chairs, [239]
• America, carved chests of Puritan colonists, [60]
• America, types coincident with Jacobean, [60]
• Anachronism in country makers' work, [204]
• Anne, Queen, chintz printing in time of, [325]
• Anne, Queen, style—cabriole leg, advent of, [167]
• Anne, Queen, chests of drawers, [67]
• Anne, Queen, scandal at Court of, [158]
• Anne, Queen, so-called style, [167]
• Back—the chair, and its development, [203]
• Bacon cupboards, [154]
• Ball and claw foot, introduction of, [162]
• "Barley sugar" turning, illustrated, [105]
• Bedfordshire tables, [283]
• Bedstead, Jacobean, illustrated, [77]
• Bevel of panel indicating date, [204]
• Bible-boxes, [34], [139]-[154]
• Bloomfield, Robert, quoted, [268]
• Bobbins, Buckinghamshire, [153]
• Brittany dressers, [134]
• Broken corners, Queen Anne style, [167], [169]
• Buckinghamshire bobbins, [153]
• Bureau bookcase and cupboard, [176]
• Bureaus, marquetry in coloured woods, [169]
• Byzantine types of furniture existent in Elizabethan days, [37]
• Cabriole leg, advent of the, [167]
• Cabriole leg (Queen Anne period), [129]
• Cambridge tables, [283]
• Candle dipper, the, [288]
• Cane-back chairs, [203], [207]
• Cane-back chairs, late Stuart, [199]
• Cane-back chair, its influence on farmhouse styles, [208]
• Caning in chairs out of fashion, [162]
• Chairs— America, Windsor chair, types of, [246] Back, the, its development, [203] Caned-back chair, its influence on farmhouse styles, [208] Caned chairs, late Stuart, [199], [203], [207] Caning out of fashion, [162] Charles II. period styles, [211] Chippendale styles, [179] Chippendale, Windsor styles, [254] Corner chairs, [240] Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, [221] Cupid's bow top rail, [218] Cushions, their use with, [199], [207] Derbyshire chairs, [203] Elizabethan turned chairs, [37] Evolution of the chair, [189]-[241] Fiddle splat chairs, introduction of, [162] Fiddle splat, Queen Anne style, [217] Fiddle splat, Windsor, at its best, [254] "Fiddle-string" backs, [249] Goldsmith, Oliver, his chair, [253] Grandfather variety, [168], [230] Hepplewhite country styles, [221] Hepplewhite Windsor chairs, [254] Horseshoe back, Windsor, [259], [260] Jacobean, typical form, [196] Ladder-back chairs, [233] Lancashire rush-bottom chairs, [241] Lancashire spindle back chairs, [278] Modern office-chair, derivation of, [260] Prince of Wales's feathers in back, [227] Ribbon-back, introduction of, [179] Rush-bottomed chairs, [233] Shell ornament employed, [167] Sheraton country styles, [221] Sheraton Windsor chairs, [259], [260] Spindle-back chairs, [234] Splat, Queen Anne, the, [217] Straight-backed chairs, [203] Stretcher, evolution of the, [200] Tavern chairs, [249] Wheel-back Windsor chairs, [259] Woods used, Windsor chairs, [249], [250]
• Charles II. chests of drawers, [62]
• Charles II. period, impetus given to furniture design, [95]
• Charles II. period, styles of chairs, [211]
• Chests, Gothic, [34]
• Chests, sixteenth century, [34]
• Chests, Welsh carving, [277]
• Chests of drawers, [60]
• Chests of drawers, Charles II. period, [62]
• Chests of drawers, Queen Anne style, [67]
• Children's stools, Jacobean, illustrated, [77]
• Chimney crane, the, [294]
• China and glass cupboards, [180]
• Chinese designs in chintzes, [333]
• Chinese style of Chippendale, [227]
• Chintz printing becomes a national industry, [321]
• Chintzes, old English, [317]-[341]
• Chippendale and his contemporaries, [180]
• Chippendale clock cases, [312]
• Chippendale quoted, [227], [228]
• Chippendale, ribbon designs of, [179]
• Chippendale style, provincial, [221]
• Chippendale style Windsor chairs, [254]
• Chocolate houses, polemic against, [170]
• Chronology, seventeenth-century, [45]-[48]
• Claw-and-ball foot, introduction of, [162]
• Clock and dresser combined, [129]
• Clocks, grandfather, [306]
• Club foot, introduction of, [162]
• Cobbett, William, quoted, [67]
• Coffee-drinking and coffee-houses, [170]
• Coffee, women's petition against, [170]
• Corner chairs, [240]
• Cottage furniture and earthenware compared, [31]
• Country cabinet-maker, his mixture of styles, [211]
• Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, [221]
• Country furniture, its sturdy independence, [24]
• Country makers little influenced by contemporary fashion, [50]
• Cradles, [148]
• Cromwellian chests with drawers, [52]
• Crusie, the Scottish, [277], [293]
• Cupboard, the bacon, [154]
• Cupboard, Welsh carving, [277]
• Cupboards, corner, introduction of, [162]
• Cupboards and drawers, taste for, [125]
• "Cupid's bow" underframing, [107], [185]
• "Cupid's bow" top rail of chair, [218]
• Cushions, their use with chairs, [199], [207]
• Delany, Mrs., quoted, [153]
• Denmark, the conservation of old farmhouse furniture in, [38]
• Derbyshire chairs, [203]
• Design books, eighteenth-century, publication of, [222]
• Director, by Chippendale, a working guide, [223]
• Drawer accommodation a feature in late dressers, [130]
• Drawers, chests of, [60]
• Drawers, chests of, Charles II. period, [62]
• Drawers, chests of, Queen Anne style, [67]
• Dresser and clock combined, [129]
• Dressers, farmhouse, [115]-[135]
• Dressers— Brittany, [134] Lancashire, [134] Normandy, [134] Welsh, [133]
• Dutch artisans print early English chintzes, [321]
• Dutch influence early eighteenth century, [168], [170]
• Earthenware and cottage furniture compared, [31]
• Eighteenth-century dressers, [130]
• Eighteenth-century pleasure gardens, [249]
• Eighteenth-century styles, [157]-[187]
• Elizabethan turned chairs, [37]
• English chintzes, old, [317]-[341]
• English farmhouse furniture, desirability of its preservation, [42]
• English joiners' work, its solidity, [51]
• Essex tables, [283]
• Exotic bird patterns in chintzes, [333]
• "Farmer's Boy" (Robert Bloomfield) quoted, [268]
• Farmhouse furniture (English), desirability of its preservation, [42]
• Farmhouse furniture influenced by walnut styles, [208]
• Farmhouse styles contemporary with the cane-back chair, [208]
• Feet— Arcaded foot, Charles II. period, [62] Ball, [62]; illustrated, [65] Claw-and-ball foot, introduction of the, [162] Club foot, its introduction, [162] Hoof foot, the, [176] Scroll or Spanish foot, [104], [203] Spanish foot, the, [104], [203] Spanish foot, in corrupted form, illustrated, [105], [109] Trestle, in Gothic style, [90]
• Fiddle splat chairs, introduction of, [162]
• Fiddle splat, Queen Anne style, [217]
• Fiddle splat Windsor chair at its best, [254]
• "Fiddle-string" backs, [249]
• Firebacks, Sussex, [296]
• Firebacks, Sussex, fine examples exhibited, [305]
• Firedogs, cottage and farmhouse, [294]
• Food of country population, seventeenth century, [81]
• Foreign styles, slow assimilation of, [67]
• French artisans print early English chintzes, [321]
• Gate-leg tables, [85]-[112]
• Gate-leg table, double gates, [96]; illustrated, [93]
• Gate-leg table, established as a popular type, [90]
• Gate-leg table, square top, illustrated, [105]
• Geometric panels, chests of drawers, [61]; dressers, [121]
• Georgian styles, early types, [179]
• Gibbons, Grinling, the style of, [56]
• Goldsmith, Oliver, his chair, [253]
• Gothic brackets to chests, [34]
• Gothic chests, [34]
• Gothic trestle, gate-leg table, [89]
• Grandfather chair, the, [230]
• Grandfather chair, curved lines of, [168]
• Grandfather clocks, [306]
• Grandfather clock combined with dresser, [129]
• Great Seal of Queen Anne, showing style of ornament, [168]
• Hardwick Hall, suite at, [55]
• Hepplewhite clock cases, [312]
• Hepplewhite influence on village work, [207]
• Hepplewhite quoted, [229], [230]
• Hepplewhite style, provincial, [221]
• Hertfordshire tables, [283]
• Hogarth, the line of beauty the curve, [168]
• Hoof foot, the, [176]
• Horseshoe-back Windsor chairs, [130], [257], [260]
• Incongruity of provincial cabinet-maker, [211]
• Inlaid work rarely employed, [55]
• Inlaid work with walnut, [169]
• Inlaid work, woods used, [169]
• Irish Chippendale, [272]
• Ironwork, miscellaneous, [287]-[313]
• Ironwork, Scottish, [277]
• Isle of Man tables, [283]
• Jacobean cradles, [148]
• Jacobean dressers with geometric panels, [121]
• Jacobean furniture, typical styles, [49]
• Jacobean oak chair, typical form, [196]
• Jacobean period, its characteristics, [95]
• Jacobean period, late styles of, [115]
• Jacobean style, its transition to William and Mary, [207]
• Jacobean Sussex firebacks, [299], [300]
• Joinery, the solidity of English, [51]
• Jones, R., of Old Ford, chintz printer, [337]
• Kettle trivet, the cottager's, [295]
• Lacquer employed in clock-cases, [312]
• Ladder-back chair, the, [233]
• Lancashire chintzes, [337]
• Lancashire dressers, [134]
• Lancashire furniture, [278]
• Lancashire Queen Anne settle, [167]
• Lancashire rush-bottom chair, [241]
• Legs— "Barley sugar" turning illustrated, [105] Cabriole leg, introduction of the, [167] Egg and reel turning, [43]; illustrated, [93] Eight legs (gate table), [99] Elizabethan bulbous leg, [60] Jacobean straight-turned leg, [60] Jacobean, various forms of turning, [89] Queen Anne cabriole leg, [129] Six legs, gate table, illustrated, [99] Split urn leg, illustrated, [91], [119] Straight leg again in vogue, [180] Urn-shaped leg, [60] Urn-shaped splat, [121]; illustrated, [91], [119]
• Linen-fold pattern on chests, [32]
• Local types, [33]
• Local types of furniture, [267]-[284]
• London and the vicinity, chintz printed in, [322]
• Longleat, oak furniture at, [55]
• Lyngby (near Copenhagen), collection of old farmhouse furniture at, [41]
• Macaulay quoted, [158]
• Macaulay, "State of England in 1685" quoted, [76]
• Mahogany gate-leg tables, [103]
• Mahogany styles, their gracefulness, [179]
• Mahogany, the chief designers of, of the golden age, [104]
• Marlborough, Duchess of, and her intrigues, [158]
• Marquetry bureaus in coloured woods, [169]
• Marquetry, woods used in, [169]
• Minor cabinet-makers' work lacking harmony, [212]
• Modern office-chair, derivation from Windsor type, [263]
• More, Hannah, and the agricultural classes, [175]
• Morris, William, his influence on furniture, [111]
• "Mule" chests, [52]
• Norfolk, oak furniture, [283]
• Normandy dressers, [134]
• Normans, furniture, styles of, introduced by, [37]
• North, Roger, quoted, [170]
• Oak, erroneously used to carry out walnut designs, [212]
• Oak, general in its use, [55]
• Oak supplanted by walnut in fashionable furniture, [207]
• Oak the chief wood employed, [33]
• Office-chair, derivation from Windsor type, [263]
• Oriental patterns in chintzes, [333]
• Panelling, bevel of, indicating date of, [204]
• Panels, sunk, Jacobean style, [62]
• Patterns, wood, used for firebacks, [300]
• People, changing habits of the, in seventeenth century, [72]
• Pepys's Diary, quoted, [79]
• Pleasure gardens, eighteenth-century, [249]
• Pot-hook, the, [294]
• Pot-hooks, fine examples, where exhibited, [294]
• Prince of Wales's feathers, [227]
• Provincial furniture many decades behind fashion, [50]
• Queen Anne, cabriole leg, [129]
• Queen Anne dressers, [122]
• Queen Anne flap tables, [89]
• Queen Anne period, the splat of the, [217]
• Restoration period, chests of drawers, [62]
• Ribbon designs, introduction of, [179]
• Roads in provinces, bad state of, [79]
• Rush-bottom chair, the, [233]
• Rushlight holder, the, [288]
• Scandinavian origin of Elizabethan chair, [37]
• Scotland, Union with, proclamation by Queen Anne, [161]
• Scottish types of ironwork, [277]
• "Seaweed" marquetry in clock-cases, [312]
• Settle, Lancashire form, [278]
• Settle, Queen Anne style, [167]
• Seventeenth-century, chronology of, [45]-[48]
• Seventeenth-century settle (Lancashire), [278]
• Seventeenth-century sideboard, typical style, [56]
• Seventeenth-century styles, [49]-[82]
• Seventeenth-century styles, types of, [72]
• Shell ornament, early eighteenth-century, [167]
• Sheraton clock-cases, [312]
• Sheraton influence on country makers, [234]
• Sheraton influence in Windsor chairs, [259]
• Sheraton style, provincial, [221]
• Sideboard, typical seventeenth-century style, [56]
• Sixteenth-century chests, [34]
• Sizergh Castle, oak room at, [55]
• Spanish foot, its use, [104], [107]
• Spanish Succession, War of the, [161]
• Spindle-back chair, the, [234]
• Spindle-back chairs (Lancashire), [278]
• Spinning-wheels, [153]
• Spitalfields weavers, complaint as to chintz fashions, [326], [330]
• Splat, the Queen Anne, [217]
• Staffordshire pottery and cottage furniture compared, [31]
• Stands for chests of drawers, [67]
• Stockholm, collection of farmhouse furniture at, [38]
• Stools, children's Jacobean, illustrated, [77]
• Straight-backed chairs, [203]
• Stretcher, evolution of the, [200]
• Stretcher, Yorkshire splat form, [96]
• Suffolk oak furniture, [283]
• Sussex firebacks, [296]
• Sussex ironworks, the, [295], [296]
• "Swan head" to cupboard, [168]
• Sweden, the conservation of old farmhouse furniture in, [38]
• Swift quoted, [161]
• Tables— Adam style, [186] Arcaded spandrils, illustrated, [179] Bedfordshire types, [283] Cambridge types, [283] Collapsible form (Charles II.), [103] Cross stretcher, X form, [103] Cupid's bow underframing, [107]; illustrated, [109] Elizabethan bulbous-leg form, [60] Essex types, [283] Flap tables (Queen Anne), [89]; (Georgian), illustrated, [183] Gate-leg, [85]-[112] Gothic trestle, gate-leg table, [89] Hertfordshire types, [283] Isle of Man table, [283] Scalloped-edge tea-table, illustrated, [181] Scalloped underframing, illustrated, [73] Sixteenth-century style, [52] Spandrils, arcaded, illustrated, [179] Stretchers, splat form, [89]; illustrated, [97] Tea-table, Queen Anne style, [185] Three-legged, [283] Underframing, Cupid's bow, illustrated, [109] Various local types, [283] Yorkshire type, [89]
• Tapers, how made by cottagers, [288]
• Tavern chair, the, [249]
• Tea-drinking becomes national, [170]
• Tea-gardens, eighteenth-century, [249]
• Tea-table, Queen Anne style, [185]
• Three-legged tables, [283]
• Transition from Jacobean to William and Mary styles, [207]
• Trestle in gate-leg table, [89]
• Triangular gate form, [86]; illustrated, [87]
• Tripod tables, [185]
• Turning, various patterns in Jacobean leg, [89]
• Union with Scotland, [161]
• Varangian Guard introduce Byzantine furniture into Scandinavia, [37]
• Veneer, in walnut, early eighteenth-century, [169]
• Village cabinet-maker, originality of, [32]
• Wales, Prince of, feathers in chair back, [227]
• Walnut gate-leg tables, [103]
• Walnut in general use, [207]
• Walnut styles, early eighteenth-century, [169]
• Walnut supplanted by mahogany, [207]
• Warming-pan, the, [295]
• Wardrobe, Lancashire type, [278]
• Welsh carving, [272]
• Welsh dressers, [133]
• Wesley and the Methodist movement, [175]
• Whitefield and the colliers, [175]
• Wheel-back Windsor chairs, [257]
• William and Mary dressers, [126]
• William and Mary gate-leg tables, [104]
• William and Mary period, finely turned work, [75]
• William and Mary style, its development from Jacobean, [207]
• Windsor chair, the, [243]-[263]
• Windsor chair, the, Sheraton influence, [259]
• Windsor chair, its survival, [260]
• Windsor chairs, Chippendale style, [254]
• Wood patterns used for firebacks, [300]
• Woods employed in farmhouse furniture, [33]
• Woods used in Windsor chairs, [249], [250]
• Woods used in walnut marquetry, [169]
• Women's petition against coffee, [170]
• Yorkshire chairs, [203]
• Yorkshire splat stretcher to tables, [96]

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