Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors

by Arthur Hayden

S

• Sackville, Lord, early Jacobean furniture in collection of, [86]
• St. Paul's Cathedral, work of Grinling Gibbons at, [121]
• Secret drawers, [114]
• —— drawers, pieces with, [113], [157], [231]
• —— drawers, Sheraton's love of, [251]
• —— processes to impart age to spurious pieces, [260]
• Settee, see [Glossary], [27]
• —— upholstered, early Jacobean, at Knole, [90]
• Settle, see [Glossary], [28], [60]
• —— Queen Anne style, [145], [149]
• Sèvres porcelain as decoration to furniture, [191]
• —— porcelain in harmony with furniture, [181]
• Shattock, Esq., T. Foster, specimens from collection of, [45]
• Shearer, [248]
• Sheraton, Thomas, and his style, [209], [241]-[256]
• —— chair (illustrated), [243]
• —— mechanical contrivances of his furniture, [251]
• —— poverty of, [248];
• his opinion of Chippendale, [248]
• Sigerson, Dr., Dublin, specimens from collection of, [157], [206]
• Sixteenth-century woodwork, fine example of, [65]
• Spain, Renaissance in, [48]
• Spanish furniture (illustrated), cabinet, [51]; chest, [52]
• Spitalfields' velvet for furniture, [147]
• —— weaving founded by aliens, [122]
• Splat, see [Glossary], [28]
• Stothard, copy of engraving by, [231], [235]
• Strafford, first Earl of, chair with arms of, [94]
• Strapwork, see [Glossary], [28]
• —— borrowed from Flemish designers, [64]; illustrated, [61], [68]
• —— Elizabethan, [69]
• Stretche, Esq., T. E. Price, specimens from collection of, [75], [78], [97], [139], [140]
• Stretcher, see [Glossary], [28]
• —— in chairs, evolution of the, [122]
• —— wear given to, by feet of sitters, [100]
• Sutton, Thomas, founder of Charterhouse Hospital, [86]
• Symonds, John Addington, "The Renaissance in Italy," quoted, [41]

T

• Table, gate-leg, see [Glossary], [24]
• Tapestry factory established at Mortlake, [92]
• —— in harmony with furniture, [181]
• Tenon, see [Glossary], [28]
• Terror, Reign of, vandalism during, [204]
• Timber split to give figure in surface, [76], [118]
• Transition between Gothic and Renaissance, [44], [47], [63]
• Turned work, see [Glossary], [28]

U

• Upholstered chairs adopted in late Elizabethan days, [75]
• —— seat (William and Mary), [122]

V

• Vandyck at the Court of Charles I., [92]
• Varnish, oil, composition of, not now known, [119]
• —— spirit, a modern invention, [118]
• —— Vernis-Martin, see [Glossary], [28]
• Veneer, see [Glossary], [28]
• Veneered work, its adoption, [139]
• Veneers, woods used as, see [Glossary], [29]
• Vernis-Martin (Martin's varnish), see [Glossary], [28], [182]
• Versailles, sums spent upon building, [166]; vandalism at, [172], [177]

W

• Wallace Collection, illustrations of specimens, at, [163], [171], [181], [183]
• Walnut period, [34]
• Walnut veneer, Queen Anne period, [139]
• Walpole, Horace, [221]
• Waring, Messrs., specimens from collection of, [81], [117], [119], [143], [149], [197]
• Watteau, [192]
• Wedgwood, Josiah, [247]
• Wellington, Duke of, collection in possession of, [209]
• Welsh dresser, [100]
• Westminster Abbey, Henry VII.'s chapel, [63]
• William and Mary furniture, prices realised at auction, [130]
• Winckelmann, [205]
• Woods preferred by Grinling Gibbons, [121]
• —— used for delicate carving by foreign schools, [116]
• —— used in furniture, see [Glossary], [29]
• —— with fancy names, [29]; botanical names of, [196]
• Woodwork, sixteenth century, fine examples of, [65]
• Worms, ravages of furniture, [234], [271], [274]
• Wren, Sir Christopher, [120]