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Title: The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson McClure, Abbot, 1879-
Subjects: Furniture
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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cabriole or square legsand the top was surrounded with a gallery or rim, eithermoulded, carved, or fretted (Plate XIX, p. 174). Thetops were sometimes detachable and meant to serve astrays. These tables were both plain and decorated,and usually of dainty proportions. In use they wereclosely akin to the tripod tables. In some of the moredelicate tables rising saltire stretchers were used (PlateXIX, p. 174). Tripod Tables. The introduction of tripod furni-ture is to be ascribed to Chippendale more probablythan to any of his contemporaries. The tripod tablehad either a round or rectangular top, which was often-times hinged so as to turn up when not in use. Someof the tops were plain but more frequently weresunk, that is to say, they had rims or galleries,moulded, carved or fretted. The familiar pie-crust rim(Key VIII, 2) belonged to this type of table, and wascarved, as its extreme irregularity of outline couldnot conveniently be turned. The shaft was frequently fluted, reeded or carved
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CHIPPENDALE CABINET IN CHINESE MODE (Of authentic Chippendale origin) By Courtesy of Richard A. Canfield, Esq., New York City PLATE XVII CHIPPENDALE 167 and often sprang from a turned or carved vase or bulbwhich rested upon three cabriole legs. The cabriole legs were usually carved more or lesselaborately and terminated in feet of various shape,the claw and ball or slipper feet being the most com-mon, although other forms alsp occurred. The slipperfeet are more common where the legs and the shaft areplain. All the plainer American tripod tables are tobe classed as belonging to the Chippendale period. CHESTS OF DRAWERS AND CHESTS Chests of drawers were of two varieties, low andhigh. The low chests of drawers were supported onshort cabriole legs with claw and ball feet or uponshaped bracket (Key VIII, 6) feet. The base of theplinth was generally straight, sometimes with a splayedgadroon edge. There were ordinarily four drawers.The fronts of the drawers either overlapped the railsslightl

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