Identifier: decorativeperiod00clifrich (find matches)
Title: The decorative periods
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935
Subjects: Furniture Decoration and ornament Interior decoration
Publisher: New York, Clifford & Lawton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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CHINESE INFLUENCE OF SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS,CHIPPENDALE PERIOD. GEORGE III.
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244 The Decorative Periods Manwaring, Copeland, Lock, Crunden, Johnson and- Edwards &Darley, but they all lacked his charm of workmanship. Indeed, the work of Ince & Mayhew seems almost like acaricature of the Chippendale style. Johnsons work was better.He was very profuse in his ornamentation, using flowers, birds,masques, fishes, beasts and human figures of fantastic character.Hepplewhite in 1789 brought out his Cabinet Maker andUpholsterers Guide. The Chinese atmosphere had been dis-pelled by the influence of the Brothers Adam. Houses werebeing built in the classic style and the interiors decorated withfestoons of drapery, wreaths of flowers caught up by rams heads.The shield or the heart-shaped chair backs were Hepple-whites hall mark. Chippendales chairs were larger and moresolid. The leg terminals of the Hepplewhite chair were frequentlyspade-footed, as the square terminal at the thin end of the legwas called. Hepplewhite frequently painted and japanned his chairs, and f

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