Jacobean styles, so-called, extend through the greater part of the century, but each succeeding Stuart marked his special progress on them. The styles of the first kings, James I and his son Charles I, lifted the family movables from heaviness to comparative lightness, and grew away from the Renaissance in truly original ways. On this fact rests much of its interest. The other great fact for us is that these years of the first Stuart kings were the years of the first American colonisation.
Plate X—OAK CHEST OF DRAWERS
An interesting example of the Jacobean use of decorative mouldings
Plate XI—EARLY JACOBEAN CABINET
Carved and put together with wooden pegs. A guilloche carving ornaments each panel