Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors

by Arthur Hayden

D

• Darly, [248]
• Dated pieces—
• • 1593, Elizabethan bedstead, [66]
  • 1603, Mirror, carved oak frame, [71]
  • 1603, Court cupboard, [73]
  • 1616, Oak table, [85]
  • 1623, Chair, [97]
  • 1641, Cradle, [96]
  • 1642, Chair, [159]
  • 1653, Cabinet, [frontispiece]
  • 1760-69, "Bureau du roi," [185]
  • 1769, Bureau, [196]
  • 1810, Jewel cabinet, [207]
• David, [195], [208], [209]
• Derbyshire chairs, [103]
• Diderot, [205]
• Director, designs of chair-backs from, [222], [225]
• Drake, Sir Francis, chair made from timber of Golden Hind, [82]
• Drawers, chests of, Jacobean, [117]
• Dressers, Normandy, [103]
• —— "Welsh," [100]
• Dublin Museum, illustration of oak chest at, [44]
• Dutch art, introduction of, by William of Orange, [124]
• —— house, interior of (illustrated), [111]
• —— lacquer work, [151]
• —— marquetry, [128], [146]
• —— marquetry chair, illustrated, [143]
• —— marquetry, prices realised at auction, [132]

E

• Eassie, Walter, illustrations from drawings by, [171], [183]
• Egyptian design, influence of, [247]
• Eighteenth century, early, well-constructed furniture of, [145]
• —— interior of room (illustrated), [235]
• Elizabethan mansions, some noteworthy, [67]
• Elizabethan woodwork, fine example of, [65]
• Empire style furniture, [202]-[210]
• —— its influence on English makers, [209]
• England, Renaissance in, [37], [59]-[78]

F

• Farmhouse furniture, [100]
• Figure in wood, how obtained, [76], [118]
• Fire of London, destruction of furniture by, [120]
• First Empire style, [203]-[210]
• Flemish wood-carving, its influence on English craftsmen, [49]
• Fontainebleau, illustration of jewel cabinet at, [207]
• Foreign workmen employed in England, [37]
• Fragonard, [182], [195]
• France, Renaissance in, [43]
• Francis I., patron of the new art, [47]
• Frauds perpetrated on collectors, [259]-[274]
• French polish, see [Glossary], [24], [236]
• French Revolution, vandalism during, [204]

G

• Gate-leg table, see [Glossary], [24]
• —— table, [95]
• Gibbons, Grinling, work of, [121]
• Gillow, [248]
• Golden Hind, chair made from timbers of, [82]
• Goldsmith, Oliver, chair of, [215], [216]
• Gothic, see [Glossary], [25]
• —— revival, its influence on Chippendale, [221]
• Gouthière, Pierre, [191], [192], [197]
• Grandfather clock, [147]
• —— clock, introduction of, [127]
• Great Hall at Hampton Court, [63]
• Grimm, quotation from, [205]
• Grotesque design prevalent in Elizabethan furniture, [69]

H

• Hall, Hampton Court, the Great, [63]
• —— Middle Temple, carved screen at, [65]
• Hampton Court, the Great Hall at, [63]
• —— Court, work of Grinling Gibbons at, [121]
• Hampton & Sons, Messrs., pieces from collection of, [59], [95], [99], [115], [120], [121], [135], [143], [147], [148], [250]
• Harrington, Sir John, quotation from, [75]
• Henry VII.'s chapel, Westminster Abbey, [63]
• —— VIII., patron of the new art, [37]
• Heppelwhite, the style of, [241]-[256]
• —— chairs (illustrated), [243]
• Herculaneum and Pompeii, influence of excavations at, [204], [209]
• Hints to Collectors, [259]-[274]
• Hogarth, William, [246]
• Holbein in England, [37]
• Honey, W. G., Esq., specimen from collection of, [151]
• Huygens, Dutch lacquer of, [182]