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diff --git a/43805-h/43805-h.htm b/43805-h/43805-h.htm index e89596f..7f4b5d1 100644 --- a/43805-h/43805-h.htm +++ b/43805-h/43805-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <link rel="coverpage" href="images/i_cover.jpg" /> <title> @@ -130,45 +130,7 @@ table {border-collapse: collapse;} </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume -II. The Period of Queen Anne, by J. P. Blake and A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne - -Author: J. P. Blake - A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins - -Release Date: September 23, 2013 [EBook #43805] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD FURNITURE, VOL II *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Sue Fleming and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43805 ***</div> <div class="figcenter" id="coverpage"> <img src="images/i_cover.jpg" width="400" height="600" alt="" /></div> @@ -537,7 +499,7 @@ misunderstood, and possibly a trifle harshly treated. Mr. Ernest Law, whose studies of this period we have already mentioned, describes it as "nothing better than an imitation of the bastard classic of Louis XIV., <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a> </span>as distinguished from the so-called 'Queen Anne style' which never had -any existence at all except in the brains of modern æsthetes and china +any existence at all except in the brains of modern æsthetes and china maniacs," and as a case in point refers to Queen Anne's drawing-room at Hampton Court Palace. This verdict is no doubt a true one as regards the schemes of interior decoration, with their sprawling deities and the @@ -933,7 +895,7 @@ to his profession without interruption, and wondered not a little how I found him out. I asked him if he were unwilling to be known to some great man, for that I believed it might turn to his profit, he answered, he was yet but a beginner, but would not be sorry to sell off that -piece; on demanding the price he said £100. In good earnest, the very +piece; on demanding the price he said £100. In good earnest, the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong; in the piece was more than one hundred figures of men, &c.... @@ -962,7 +924,7 @@ than an ass, or a monkey, so as in a kind of indignation, I caused the person who brought it to carry it back to the Chamber, finding the Queen so much governed by an ignorant French woman, and this incomparable artist had his labour only for his pains, which not a little displeased -me; he not long after sold it for £80, though well worth £100, without +me; he not long after sold it for £80, though well worth £100, without the frame, to Sir George Viner. His Majesty's Surveyor, Mr. Wren, faithfully promised to employ him. I having also bespoke his Majesty for his work at Windsor, which my friend Mr. May, the architect there, was @@ -1860,12 +1822,12 @@ the chests of drawers raised on twisted or turned legs, which are fixed to a shallow plinth or joined near the ground by shaped stretchers. For the first-named type we refer readers to <a href="#illo52">Fig. 52</a>, a specimen at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is built of pinewood overlaid with lignum -vitæ, sycamore and walnut, in small roundish pieces cut across the +vitæ, sycamore and walnut, in small roundish pieces cut across the grain. The top is further decorated with sycamore bands arranged in two concentric circles in the centre, surrounded by intersecting segments. In the corners are quadrants. Each side has a large circle of similar materials. The structure is 3 ft. 8 in. high and 3 ft. 4 in. wide. It -cost the museum £10 in 1898.</p> +cost the museum £10 in 1898.</p> <p><a href="#illo53">Fig. 53</a>, another dwarf chest of drawers of the same period, also at the museum, is of oak and pine veneered with various woods. This is an @@ -2025,7 +1987,7 @@ lacquer.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a> </span></p> <p><a href="#illo59">Fig. 59</a> is an example of a china cabinet in marquetry work, with scrolled cornice, two glazed doors, two cupboards, bracketed base, and -shaped under-framing. This piece has a value of about £30.</p> +shaped under-framing. This piece has a value of about £30.</p> <p>The walnut period is rich in cabinets, which were used for the storage of papers and valuables—structures quite distinct from the @@ -2130,7 +2092,7 @@ are slender, usually measuring at the top about 30 by 21 ins.</p> <p><a href="#illo64">Fig. 64</a> represents a still simpler form of Queen Anne writing-table on solid walnut cabriole legs. The drawer fronts and top are veneered and -inlaid with simple bands. This specimen has a value of about £5. The +inlaid with simple bands. This specimen has a value of about £5. The photograph was supplied by Mr. Springett, of Rochester. This form of table and the one previously illustrated are sometimes described as dressing-tables. They were probably used for both purposes, and they @@ -2159,11 +2121,11 @@ structure—thus ingeniously disguising their presence.</p> <p>We have seen specimens of the same type entirely veneered with walnut and others inlaid with marquetry. These bureaux, dating from about 1690 -well into Queen Anne's reign, have selling values of from £25 to £35.</p> +well into Queen Anne's reign, have selling values of from £25 to £35.</p> <p>There must be an added sentimental pleasure in sitting at an escritoire which was possibly the treasured possession of a pamphleteer or diarist -of the last years of the rebellion: an æsthetic joy in rummaging amongst +of the last years of the rebellion: an æsthetic joy in rummaging amongst the secret drawers which contained the journals in cypher of the wire-pullers of the new monarchy.</p> @@ -2242,7 +2204,7 @@ anything more charming as a finish to a "walnut period" room.</p> dial, which is very nicely engraved with a flower design, is signed "Andrew Prime Londini Fecit." It has dolphin-pattern frets on three sides. The side frets are engraved to match the front one. This clock -cost the museum £4 4<i>s.</i> in 1892. Andrew Prime was admitted to the +cost the museum £4 4<i>s.</i> in 1892. Andrew Prime was admitted to the Clock-makers' Company in 1647, and we shall be within the mark in assuming that the clock was made some time between that date and 1680. The dolphin decoration would, indeed, point to a date not earlier than @@ -2349,7 +2311,7 @@ may still be bought for four or five pounds apiece, whilst reliable eight-day clocks of fair make will fetch anything from five to ten pounds. We cannot expect to get a Tompion or Graham clock for anything like these prices. We had the opportunity five years ago of buying a -magnificent Graham clock in a mahogany case of fine proportions for £20. +magnificent Graham clock in a mahogany case of fine proportions for £20. It was the chance of a lifetime, and—the chance was missed.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a> </span></p> @@ -2471,7 +2433,7 @@ on lacquer in "Japan and Its Art."</p> or Chinese lacquer found their way to this country, and then principally in the shape of small cups, bowls, and trays. "Indian Cabinets" are mentioned occasionally in inventories at the end of Elizabeth's reign, -and in the household accounts of Charles II. there is an item of £100 +and in the household accounts of Charles II. there is an item of £100 for "two Jappan Cabinets."</p> <p>The English and Portuguese traded with Japan in Elizabeth's reign, but @@ -2636,7 +2598,7 @@ the unexperienced Practitioner."</p> <p>It may interest readers to know the market prices of some of the materials used in 1688. Seed-lac, 14<i>s.</i> to 18<i>s.</i> per lb.; gum -sandrack, 1<i>s.</i> to 1<i>s.</i> 2<i>d.</i> per lb.; gum animæ, 3<i>s.</i> to 5<i>s.</i> per +sandrack, 1<i>s.</i> to 1<i>s.</i> 2<i>d.</i> per lb.; gum animæ, 3<i>s.</i> to 5<i>s.</i> per lb.; Venice turpentine, 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> to 1<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i> per lb.; white rosin, 4<i>d.</i> to 6<i>d.</i> per lb.; shell-lac, 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> to 2<i>s.</i> per lb.; gum arabic, 1<i>s.</i> per lb.; gum copall, 1<i>s.</i> to 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> per @@ -2724,7 +2686,7 @@ long since, in our own day, there was a similar craze for covering furniture with enamel paints.</p> <p><a href="#illo74">Fig. 74</a> is an interesting china cabinet in black lacquer of William and -Mary period, 7 ft. 5 in. high and 5 ft. wide, priced at £30. A +Mary period, 7 ft. 5 in. high and 5 ft. wide, priced at £30. A first-class modern mahogany or walnut-wood cabinet of the size could scarcely be made for the money, whilst the old lac, apart from its intrinsic charm, has an additional sentimental value as marking a phase @@ -2751,14 +2713,14 @@ cabriole legs and claw-and-ball feet. The doors, which enclose five drawers, are decorated with figures, buildings, birds and flowers, and are furnished with finely chased ormolu lock-plates and hinges. It is of black lacquer with red and gold reliefs, measures 67 in. by 39 in. by 19 -in, and is valued at about £45.</p> +in, and is valued at about £45.</p> <p><a href="#illo77">Fig. 77</a> is still later—about 1730—a cabinet surmounted on plain cabriole legs. On the front is a view of a lake with Oriental figures, cocks, and vegetation. Inside the doors are studies of the lotus-flower <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a> </span>in vases. The hinges and lock-plates are fine examples of English metal-work in the Chinese taste. This piece is 56 in. high and 36 in. -wide, and is valued at £35.</p> +wide, and is valued at £35.</p> <p>For comparison we give an example <a href="#illo78">(Fig. 78)</a> of a piece of lacquered furniture made in China about 1740. This dressing-table, built of @@ -3667,19 +3629,19 @@ like a tent was used.</p></div> <div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, who as Paymaster of the Forces during the wars in the reign of Queen Anne amassed a large fortune, built Canons, near Edgware, in 1715. The building and -furnishing is said to have cost between £200,000 and £250,000. It was in +furnishing is said to have cost between £200,000 and £250,000. It was in the classical or Palladian style of architecture, and was adorned with costly pillars and statuary. The great <i>salon</i> was painted by the Paolucci and the ceiling of the staircase by Thornhill. Although the building was designed to stand for ages, under the second Duke the estate became so encumbered that it was put up to auction, and as no buyer could be found the house was pulled down in 1747. The materials of -"Princely Canons" realised only £11,000. The marble staircase and +"Princely Canons" realised only £11,000. The marble staircase and pillars were bought by Lord Chesterfield for his house in Mayfair. The witty Earl used to speak of the columns as "the Canonical pillars of his house." The Grinling Gibbon carving of the "Stoning of St. Stephen" was transferred to Bush Hill Park, near Enfield, and finally acquired in -1898 by the Victoria and Albert Museum at a cost of £300.</p></div> +1898 by the Victoria and Albert Museum at a cost of £300.</p></div> <div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> The splat of the original is nicely inlaid, but it is impossible to adequately reproduce this in a photograph.</p></div> @@ -3705,382 +3667,6 @@ specimens.</p></div> <div class="notebox"> Transcriber's Note: The hyphenation of some words has been standardised.</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Little Books About Old Furniture. -Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne, by J. P. Blake and A. E. 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