Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. 1 4—An oak table style. Here we have a square frame of wal- nut or some dark wood with gilded border and gilded orna- m e n t s . The pediment is of the graceful swan-neck, and between the scrolls is carved a car- touche in the center of which is carved a bell-flower. The look- i n g - g 1 asses, beds, chimney- pieces with re- ceding china- this particular period. shelves, chairs, settees, and stools, therefore exemplify the Marot was appointed chief architect and designer for Anglo-Dutch style that prevailed in England till the the Dutch palaces of William, Prince of Orange; and when Georgian Era. The chair (Fig. 1) shows the heavy the latter became King of England, Marot accompanied scroll front legs of the transitional period between oak and him thither. mahogany. The scroll soon turned into a hoof, or a ball-and- Under William and Mary, London swarmed with Dutch claw, at the foot; and this lasted all through the Georgian merchants and refugee Huguenot arts and craftsmen, period and with the spring of the knee is characteristic of one The queen, who was a china-maniac, carried the Dutch taste for porcelain and manufactures of the Far East into England. In Holland Marot had designed much interior work for palaces and noblemen's seats, including chimney-pieces, staircases, paneling, cornices, china shelves, and also orna- mental gardens. Nor did Marot stop here: he designed all kinds of domestic furniture and beautiful textiles for upholstery and hangings. The work of remodelling Hamp- ton Court was given to him and Sir Christopher Wren; and the old Tudor palace soon became characteristically Dutch in appearance. The furniture was designed chiefly by Marot, and the comparatively small amount of furni- ture to be seen there to-day, consisting of chairs, stools, beds, card-tables, mirrors, and chandeliers, are in the Marot taste. The accompanying mirror (Fig. 4) is in the Marot of the best known types of the Chippendale chair. Fig. 10 is an example of the transitional period, showing a crown- shaped back with a Greek vase-shaped splat. This is the chair that appears in the early Eighteenth Century inventories as the "crown-back" chair. If this is compared with Fig. 11 and Fig. 13, the development is readily under- stood. Fig. 12 shows an arm-chair in which the splat is carved but not pierced. The legs are earlier than the claw- and-ball foot though they are cabriole in spring. On the knee is carved the shell, and the old hoof foot lingers. Placed together, chairs of this type were developed into the piece of furniture known as "double chair," Fig. 7 and Fig. 8, and settee, Fig. 5. A dressing table is represented by Fig. 6 and small oak table by Fig. 14. The illustrations are from the Thomas B. Clarke collec- tion, recently sold at the American Art Galleries.
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Fig. 1 5—An old Dutch family table

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