Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne

INDEX

Architectural inspiration less marked, 39
Ashton on Queen Anne period, 13
Balusters, examples of, 31
Baths at Hampton Court, 5
in early times, 5
Bedroom, Queen Anne, 43-46
Bedsteads at Court, 7
modern Queen Anne, 43-44
Buckingham's, Duke of, glass works, 37
Bureaux, Queen Anne period, 79
William and Mary period, 78
with secret drawers, 80-81
Cabriole legs, 53
Chairs (see Chapter IV.)
claw-and-ball decoration, 54
double, 58
drunkards', 57
fine, 57
ladder-backed, 55
period of James II., 47
Queen Anne, 51-57
shaped, 56
William and Mary, 50-51
with cabriole legs, 53-54
with rigid lines, 8, 50
Chests of drawers (see Chapter V.)
history of, 65
the tallboy, 70-71
veneered, 67-68
with cabriole legs, 69
with marquetry, 66
with turned legs, 67-69
China cabinets first introduced, 13
varieties of, 74-75
Chinese porcelain, Defoe on, 98
Evelyn on, 4
first introduced into England, 3
Chinese porcelain, Macaulay on, 4
popularity of, 13
Spectator on, 59, 98
Chintzes, 59-60
Coffee-houses, 11, 12
Claw and ball, 54
Clocks (see Chapter VII.)
"Bob" pendulum, 83
bracket or pedestal, 86-89
Cromwell or lantern, 82-86
Cunyngham on, 92-93
Daniel Quare, 88
George Graham, 87
grandfather, 89-94
in lacquer, 90
in marquetry, 88, 91
"sheep's head," 83
Thomas Tompion, 87
Clouston on Queen Anne mirrors, 37
Cunyngham on clocks, 92-93
Defoe, Daniel, on Chinese porcelain, 98
Doorways, carved, 32
Dutch influence, 1, 20, 47, 96
Dwelling-room, Clifford's Inn, 7
Escallop-shell decoration, 54
Evelyn on Sir Christopher Wren, 21
Evelyn's Dairy, 4, 36
"Gesso" work, 41
Gibbon, Grinling, and Charles II., 26-27
examples at Hampton Court, 6
his life and work, 25-30
mirror frame, 38
Graham, George (clock-maker), 87
Hampton Court Palace (see Chapter I.), 97, 98-99
Homes of the poor, 11, 47
Houses of the wealthy, 10
Huguenot silk-workers, 57
Huish, M. B., on "Japan and its Art," 96, 107
Inlay, 14
Japanning or varnishing by John Stalker, 99-105
Lacquer (see Chapter VIII.)
cabinets, 109
China cabinet, 108
clock, 108
dressing-glasses, 111
dressing-table, 110
French, 106-107
history of, 95-97
Japanese, 106
mirror, 110
Law, Ernest, on Queen Anne period, 2, 3, 8
Macaulay, on Verrio, 9
views on collecting porcelain, 4
Macquoid, Percy, "Age of Walnut," 50
on marquetry, 67
Mahogany introduced, 8, 72
Marquetry defined, 16
Macquoid on, 67
Pollen on, 66
used on clock, 88
mirror frames, 42
tables, 61
wardrobes, 73
Marsh, Anthony (clock-maker), 86
Martin, John (clock-maker), 88
McCarthy, Justin, on Queen Anne period, 11
Mirrors (see Chapter III.)
by Grinling Gibbon, 38
Clouston on, 37
early examples, 35
"Gesso" work, 41
in Hampton Court, 36-37
in Holyrood Palace, 36
Mirrors, in marquetry, 42
in Van Eyck's picture in National Gallery, 35
influence of Wren, 40
mentioned in Evelyn's Diary, 36
mentioned in "Paradise Lost," 34
notes on purchasing, 40
simple, 38-39
toilet, 42
Needlework, "petit point," 57
popular with women, 59
Queen Mary's, 3
Pollen, J. H., on marquetry, 66
on Queen Anne period, 10
Quare, Daniel (clock-maker), 88
Queen Anne period, a gambling age, 62
Anne's influence, 10
Ashton quoted, 12
bedroom, 43-46
chairs and tables, &c. (see Chapter IV.)
definition, 8-9
houses of middle class, 60
Justin McCarthy on, 11
old city houses, 31
ordinary types of mirrors, 38, 39
simple furniture, 9, 10
Thackeray on, 12
writing-table, 79
Queen Mary, her needlework, 3
Settee, 58
Stalker, John, on japanning and varnishing, 99-105
Stools, William and Mary, 42
Queen Anne, 43
Tables (see Chapter IV.)
card, 62-63
gate leg, 64
Tables, inverted bowl decoration, 60
William and Mary, 61
with cabriole legs, 63
with claw-and-ball feet, 63
with escallop-shell decoration, 63
with flaps, 63
with marquetry work, 61
with tied stretchers, 61
Tallboys, 70-71
Tea-drinking, 12
Thackeray on Queen Anne period, 12
Toilet sets, 45
Tompion, Thomas (clock-maker), 87
Van Eyck, picture by, 48
Veneering, 14-15
Verney Memoirs, 99
Verrio, his work at Hampton Court, 9
Wardrobe (or hanging cupboard) in early days, 72
in marquetry, 73
of Dutch origin, 72
William and Mary at Hampton Court, 1
costume, 48-49
Woodcraft, ancient, 16
Wren, Sir Christopher, 2-3
builds St. Paul's Cathedral, 22
Evelyn on, 21
his life and work, 20-25
Writing-desks, history of, 76-78
Queen Anne knee-hole, 79-80

[1] The bathroom is, however, not in itself so modern in England as might be supposed. Wheatley mentions that as early as the fourteenth century a bathroom was attached to the bed-chamber in the houses of the great nobles, but more often a big tub with a covering like a tent was used.

[2] James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, who as Paymaster of the Forces during the wars in the reign of Queen Anne amassed a large fortune, built Canons, near Edgware, in 1715. The building and furnishing is said to have cost between £200,000 and £250,000. It was in the classical or Palladian style of architecture, and was adorned with costly pillars and statuary. The great salon was painted by the Paolucci and the ceiling of the staircase by Thornhill. Although the building was designed to stand for ages, under the second Duke the estate became so encumbered that it was put up to auction, and as no buyer could be found the house was pulled down in 1747. The materials of "Princely Canons" realised only £11,000. The marble staircase and pillars were bought by Lord Chesterfield for his house in Mayfair. The witty Earl used to speak of the columns as "the Canonical pillars of his house." The Grinling Gibbon carving of the "Stoning of St. Stephen" was transferred to Bush Hill Park, near Enfield, and finally acquired in 1898 by the Victoria and Albert Museum at a cost of £300.

[3] The splat of the original is nicely inlaid, but it is impossible to adequately reproduce this in a photograph.

[4] Addison wrote that "an old lady of fourscore shall be so busy in cleaning an Indian mandarin as her great-granddaughter is in dressing her baby."

[5] Fine tables of this type are very expensive. One such was sold at Christie's in June 1911 for fifty-eight guineas. It was thus described: "A William and Mary walnut-wood table, with one drawer, the top inlaid with a chariot, flowers and birds, in marqueterie of various woods, on turned legs with X-shaped stretcher—38 in. wide."

[6] Strictly speaking, De Vyck's clock, invented about 1370, is the earliest known type of the domestic clock. Made for the wealthy few in days when the generality of people did not look upon clocks as necessities, they only exist to-day as rare museum specimens.

Transcriber's Note: The hyphenation of some words has been standardised.

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