Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork

Chapter XIII: Appendix

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NAMES OF DESIGNERS OF WOODWORK AND MAKERS OF FURNITURE.

Only very meagre notices are to be found of the artists to whom we owe the designs of modern furniture. For a hundred and fifty years after the renaissance, furniture partook so generally, and the woodwork of rooms so entirely, of the character and followed so continually the details of architecture that the history of furniture-designers is that of the architects of the day. These found in the members of guilds of carvers, carpenters, or image sculptors admirable hands to carry out the ornamental details of their woodwork, such as chimney-pieces, &c., and who made sideboards, cabinets, chairs, and tables to suit the woodwork. We have space here only for the names; in the large catalogue a brief notice of almost every one of them is also given.

INDEX.

Adam, Robert and John, 112

Alexandria, ancient centre of civilisation, 17

Anglo-saxon houses, 44

Antioch, ancient centre of civilisation, 17

Architectural style in furniture, 94

Art, classic, ends in third century, 34

" Byzantine, 35

" mediæval, its growth, 41

" " its perfection, 47

" Romanesque, long continuance, 42

" renaissance, 66

" classic, revived in eighteenth century, 107

" " early nineteenth century, 114

Atrium, 18

Attalus introduces tapestry, 17

Bedrooms, English, fourteenth century, 50

" French, eighteenth century, 104

Beds, Byzantine period, 37

" Norman, 46

" Egyptian, Greek, &c., 116

" Mediæval, 118, 119

" at Hampton court, 120

Bellows, renaissance, 72

Bombé furniture, 104, 111

Boucher, 108

Boule, 95

Bureaux in marquetry, 93, 104

" or knee-hole, 128

Byzantine period, 35

" wealth, 38

" artists welcomed by Charlemagne, 41

Cabinet, French, sixteenth century, 89

" Japan, 128

Cafass, Egyptian wood, 4

Candelabra, 23, 24

Candles, Anglo-saxon, &c., 45, 48

Carriage, Anglo-saxon, 45

" fourteenth century, 54, 131

" seventeenth century, 92

" the Speaker's, 132

" Lord Darnley's, 132

Caskets, Byzantine, 37

Ceilings in Roman houses, 21, 31

Chair, Egyptian, 4, 121

" Nineveh, 7

" Greek, 10, 11, 14

" Roman, 28, 122

" of St. Peter, 35

" Byzantine, 37

" at Ravenna, 39, 122

" in Bayeux tapestry, 45

" coronation, 49

" of Guidobaldo, 63

" Italian, fifteenth century, 63

" folding mediæval, 122

" of silver, at Barcelona, 123

" the Glastonbury, 123

" Italian, seventeenth century, 124

" marquetry, 124

Chambers, Sir William, 106

Chariots, Hebrew, 9

" Greek, 15

" Roman, 130

" Byzantine, 37

Chest, Greek, 11

" Roman, 29

" of king John, 47

" fourteenth century, 51

" for copes, 56

" fifteenth century, 60

Chest, Italian, 61

" renaissance, 69, 71

Chimneypieces, eighteenth century, 106

Chippendale, 106

Cipriani, 112

Cluny hôtel, carriages there, 2

Colbert, his patronage of art, 94

Couches, Egyptian, 5

" Roman, 13

" mediæval, 120

Coypel, Antoine, 104

Cradle, mediæval, 121

Cubicula, 20

Cypress chests, 70, 127

Dagobert's chair, 43

David, 105

Delafosse, 104, 108

Dilettanti society, influence, 115

Dining-room, Byzantine, 38

Diptych of Anastasius, 36

Distaff, 106

Doorway, English, seventeenth century, 98

"Droit de prisage," 54

Ébénistes, fine cabinet makers, 108

Ebony used seventeenth century, 108

Egyptian furniture, 5

Elizabethan style, 85

Flemish furniture, seventeenth century, 87

Fragonard, 108

French style prevalent in eighteenth century, 103, 105

Furniture, use of a collection, 1

" Byzantine, still perhaps in mosques and treasuries, 40

" sixteenth century, architectural, 75

" eighteenth century, 103

" bombé, explained, 104

German artists in England, sixteenth century, 78

" work, eighteenth century, 111

Gillow, 113

Glass windows in Roman houses, 20

" mosaics, &c., 22

" Venetian, 99

Glue used by the Romans, 33

Gouthière, 105, 110

Greek manners, simple, 12

" houses, 14

Grinling Gibbons, 97

" best examples of his work, 97

Halls in Roman villas, 20

Hebrew furniture, 8

Heppelwhite, 113

Hogarth, paintings of chimneypieces, 106

Holbein, his influence, 78

Holy-water stoup, 102

House, Roman, 18

" Greek, 14

" how warmed in Rome, 29

" Anglo-saxon and Norman, 44, 46

" of timber, fifteenth century, 58

Iconoclasts, destruction by, 40

Italian coffer at South Kensington, 61

" artists, sixteenth century, 68

" " in France and England, 78, 89

" carved woodwork, sixteenth century, 89

" distaff, 106

Japanese lac-work, 106

Kauffmann (Angelica), 112

Kaunitz, a kind of bureau, 128

Kitchen utensils, Roman, 30

Knife case, sixteenth century, 76

Lac-work, Chinese and Japanese, 106

Lalonde, 108

Lares, 28

Lebrun, first head of the "Gobelins," 95

Le Pautre family, 104

Litters, Roman, 31

Lock (Matthias), 112

Locks in Roman houses, 21

Louvre, Egyptian boxes, 6

Maggiolino, 111

Mansard, 104

Marquetry, Venetian, 62

" seventeenth century, 92, 93

" Boule, 95

Meissonnier, 104, 108

Metallurgy, British, 42

Micque, 108

Mirror, Greek, 13

" renaissance, 69

Mirror frames, sixteenth century, 71

" " Venetian, 91, 99

" made in England, seventeenth century, 99, 100

Mosaic, Roman, pavements and on walls, 19

" or pietra dura, 74

Natoire, 108

Nero, colossus in his house, 25

Nineveh furniture, 6

Nuptiale, 18

[OE]ci, 20

Oppenord, 108

Ostium, 18

Paintings and pictures in Roman houses, 22

" in thirteenth century, of rooms, 48, 49

Panelling for rooms, 49

" oriental, 57

" of a chest, 60

" English, sixteenth century, 79, 80

" French, sixteenth century, 84

" English, 86

Pedestal, 90

Penates, 18

Peristylium, 20

Persian furniture, 8

" marquetry, 63

Picture-frames, renaissance, 71

Pomeranian cabinet at Berlin, 92

Pompeii, value of discoveries, 16

Porcelain given to Queen Elizabeth, 130

Pottery, time of Edward I., 49

Pudens, ancient house of, 20

Pugin, 114

Queverdo, 108

Religious houses, their woodwork, 63

" " safe generally from spoliation, 67

Renaissance in Italy, 66

" materials employed, 69

" in England, France, &c., 78

Restout, Jean, 104

Riesener, 105, 108, 109

Robert, 108

Rococo furniture, 103

Roentgen, 108, 109

Roman habits, at first simple, 16

" house, 18

" couches in dining-rooms, 19, 27

" locks and hinges, 21

" tables, 25

" chairs, 28

" kitchen utensils, 30

Roof of Westminster Hall, 55

Room decorations, French, eighteenth century, 107

Room of Marie Antoinette's time at South Kensington, 107

Roundels, 129

Salembier, 108

Scamnum, 28

Sculpture, architectural, &c., fourteenth century, 56

" renaissance, 69

Settle or seat, fourteenth century, 51

Sheraton, Thomas, 113

Sideboards, 128

Silks for furniture, eighteenth century, 107

Stuart style of woodwork and furniture, 85, 96

Table, Egyptian, 124

" Nineveh, 8

" Roman, 25, 125

" " veneered, 27

" " great value, 27

" Norman, 46

" furniture of, fourteenth century, 50

" fourteenth and fifteenth century, 53, 58, 125

" sixteenth century, 71

" of Francesco de' Medici, 75

" French, sixteenth century, 80, 81

" English, seventeenth century, 102

" long kept at Flaxton Hall, 126

Tapestry first brought to Rome, 17

" in Roman houses, 30

" in England, fourteenth century, &c., 50, 61

" Gobelin, 95

Tarsia, 62, 73, 74

Temple of Diana, 33

Theatre of C. Curio, 32

Tigrinæ tables, 26

Triclinium, 18, 117

Tripods, 22

Tudor cabinet at South Kensington, 78

" style, 85

Vase from Hadrian's villa, 25

Venetian mirror-frame, 91

Vernis-Martin, 105

Vestiaria, 20

Walpole (Horace), opinion on mediæval art, 111

Wardrobe, old English, 49

" Roman, 126

Wars of the Roses, evil consequences, 64

Wood used in Nineveh, 8

" " Greece, 15

" " Rome, for tables, &c., 26, 32

" " by Riesener, 109

Woodwork, English, in thirteenth century, 48

" " sixteenth century, 79

" Germany, in sixteenth century, 83

" Spanish, in sixteenth century, 84

" Tudor and Stuart, 86

Wren, Sir Christopher, 97

Wyattville, 114

THE END.

DALZIEL BROTHERS, CAMDEN PRESS, N.W.

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This book, published in England, dates from 1875. Some older, but
still correct, spellings may be present. There is also some 16th
century spelling. Both hyphenated and un-hyphenated versions of
some words appear in the text.

'Borgoña' and 'Borgona' both appear in the text, as do 'hôtel' and
'hotel'.

English spelling 'rules' have only existed since the second half of
the nineteenth century.

Illustrations which interrupted paragraphs have generally been moved
to more convenient positions between paragraphs. An exception is the
illustration of St. Edmund's 'well-furnished bedroom' on Page 51,
referred to in the first part of the long paragraph beginning on
Page 50. It made sense to insert the illustration after 'the year
1400', as the following text began a new topic.

Page 21: 'valves' corected to 'halves'. 'v' would seem to be a
misprint for 'h'.

"The doors were generally in two halves and could be closed with
locks,..."

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"Though the royal table might be lighted with valuable candlesticks
of metal,..."

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