Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture

by Arthur Hayden

JOINT STOOLS.

Height, 1 ft. 10-1/2 ins.

(About 1640.)

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Height, 1 ft. 8-1/2 ins.

Height, 1 ft. 5 ins.

(About 1660.)

The framing of the front and ends of these sideboards is in detail exactly like the ordinary Jacobean wall panelling or wainscot. The mouldings are all worked on the rails or styles, not mitred and glued on, no mitred mouldings being used except occasionally in the centre panel between the doors. The framing is mortised together and pinned with oak pins. The doors are usually hung on iron strap hinges, and the handles of the doors are of wrought iron. Frequently the doors of the upper cupboards are hung on pivots, not hinges. Such a sideboard belongs to the middle period of the seventeenth century, and is representative of a wide class used in farmhouses.