Chapter I: Front Matter

SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM ART HANDBOOKS.

EDITED BY WILLIAM MASKELL.

No. 3.--FURNITURE ANCIENT AND MODERN.

_These Handbooks are reprints of the dissertations prefixed to the large catalogues of the chief divisions of works of art in the Museum at South Kensington; arranged and so far abridged as to bring each into a portable shape. The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education having determined on the publication of them, the editor trusts that they will meet the purpose intended; namely, to be useful, not alone for the collections at South Kensington but for other collections, by enabling the public at a trifling cost to understand something of the history and character of the subjects treated of._

_The authorities referred to in each book are given in the large catalogues; where will also be found detailed descriptions of the very numerous examples in the South Kensington Museum._

W. M.
_August, 1875._

ANCIENT AND MODERN

FURNITURE AND WOODWORK

BY

JOHN HUNGERFORD POLLEN

WITH NUMEROUS WOODCUTS

_Published for the Committee of Council on Education_

BY

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY

LONDON.

DALZIEL BROTHERS, PRINTERS, CAMDEN PRESS, N.W.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I Furniture Ancient and Modern 1
II Antique: Egypt, Nineveh and Greece 4
III The Romans 17
IV Byzantine Art 29
V The Middle Ages 41
VI The Fifteenth Century 59
VII The Renaissance in Italy 66
VIII Renaissance in England, Flanders,
France, Germany, ans Spain 78
IX Tudor and Stuart Styles 85
X Furniture of the Eighteenth Century 103
XI Changes of Taste and Style 116
Appendix: Names of the Designers of
Woodwork and Makers of Furniture 133
Index 140

LIST OF WOODCUTS.

PAGE

Egyptian chair 4

Assyrian chairs 7

Greek chair 10

Greek chairs 11

Greek couches 13

Greek mirror 14

Greek chariot 15

Pompeian interior 19

Roman tripod 22

Roman candelabra 23

Roman candelabra 24

Roman table 26

Roman couch 27

Roman ceremonial chair 28

Roman _sella_ 28

Roman kitchen utensils 30

St. Peter's chair 35

The chair of king Dagobert 43

Anglo-norman bedstead 46

The Coronation chair 49

Interior of English mediæval bedroom 51

Anglo-saxon dinner-table 52

Dinner-table of middle-class, fifteenth century 53

Table of fifteenth century 53

Travelling carriage of fifteenth century;
"Tullia driving over the body of her father" 55

Oriental panels 57

A royal dinner-table of the fourteenth century 58

French panel; fifteenth century 60

Venetian cornice 68

Portion of carved Italian chest 69

Venetian chair 71

Italian bellows 72

Another example 73

Knife-case; 1564 76

Carved panels 80

French table; sixteenth century 81

French panel; 1577 82

English panel; about 1590 86

French cabinet; sixteenth century 88

Italian oak pedestal 90

Venetian mirror-frame 91

German arm-chair; seventeenth century 93

English bracket; about 1660 97

English doorway; about 1690 98

Venetian looking-glass 100

Holy-water stoup 101

English dinner-table; 1633 102

Italian distaff 106

Roman _triclinium_ 117

Bedstead; fifteenth century 118

The great bed of Ware 119

Bedstead at Hampton Court 120

Mediæval room 120

Cradle; fifteenth century 121

Folding chair; fifteenth century 122

Italian chair; sixteenth century 123

Antique Roman tables 125

Folding table; English, 1620(?) 126

Mediæval chest 127

Roman carriages 130

English carriage; fourteenth century 131

State carriages 132

FURNITURE,

ANCIENT AND MODERN.