By permission of Messrs. Waring.
GATE-LEG TABLE.
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STUART OR JACOBEAN. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
| James I. 1603-1625. Charles I. 1625-1649. The Commonwealth. 1649-1660. | 1619. Tapestry factory established at Mortlake, under Sir Francis Crane. —— Banqueting Hall added to Whitehall by Inigo Jones. 1632. Vandyck settled in London on invitation of Charles I. 1651. Navigation Act passed; aimed blow (1572-1652) at Dutch carrying trade. All goods to be imported in English ships or in ships of country producing goods. |
With the advent of the House of Stuart the England under James I. saw new fashions introduced in furniture. It has already been mentioned that the greater number of old houses which are now termed Tudor or Elizabethan were erected in the days of James I. At the beginning of a new monarchy fashion in art rarely changes suddenly, so that the early pieces of Jacobean furniture differ very little from Elizabethan in character. Consequently the Court cupboard, dated 1603, and mirror of the same year (illustrated on p. [70]), though bearing the date of the first year of the reign of James, more properly belong to Tudor days.
In the Bodleian Library at Oxford there is preserved a chair of fine workmanship and of historic memory. It was made from the oak timbers of the Golden Hind, the ship in which Sir Francis Drake made his adventurous voyage of discovery round the world. In spite of many secret enemies "deaming him the master thiefe of the unknowne world," Queen Elizabeth came to Deptford and came aboard the Golden Hind and "there she did make Captain Drake knight, in the same ship, for reward of his services; his armes were given him, a ship on the world, which ship, by Her Majestie's commandment, is lodged in a dock at Deptford, for a monument to all posterity."
