Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary...... Styles of FURNITURE......

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Miscellaneous Furniture - Group 3
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Windsor-Derived Rocker

Windsor-Derived Rocker

Windsor-Derived Rocker

  • Series of turned spindles
  • Carved seat

Windsor-Derived Rocker- turned stretchers

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Oak Arts & Crafts (Mission) desk

Oak Arts & Crafts (Mission) desk - detail

Oak Arts & Crafts (Mission) desk - detail

Oak Arts & Crafts (Mission) desk - detail

Oak Arts & Crafts (Mission) desk - detail

Oak plant stand

Oak plant stand

Oak plant stand - scrolled feet

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Bookcase-tambour desk.
Horizontal tambour made of thin strips of wood glued to linen or duck; runs in a groove

Bookcase-tambour desk - scrolled cornice

Bookcase-tambour desk

  • Horizontal tambour made of thin strips of wood glued to linen or duck; runs in a groove
  • Eastlake stamped brass drawer mounts with bail handle

Bookcase-tambour desk.
Eastlake stamped brass drawer mounts with bail handle

Bookcase-tambour desk well with pigeon holes and drawers

 

 

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Victorian Spool-Turned Armchair

Victorian revival of the turned spindle armchair of the 17th-century

Victorian Spool-Turned Armchair - Cane

Victorian Spool-Turned Armchair

  • Two spool-turned front stretchers and rear legs (with flared block feet)
  • Molded bottom stretchers chamfered into rear flared block feet

Victorian Spool-Turned Armchair

  • Spool-turned front and rear legs
  • Front feet: ball / rear feet: flared block feet

Victorian Spool-Turned Armchair .
Original straw(?) stuffed cover

 

 

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Transitional Early Victorian enclosed-front bookcase

Transitional Early Victorian enclosed-front bookcase

Transitional Early Victorian enclosed-front bookcase - two glazed doors with carved horizontal muntin

Transitional Early Victorian enclosed-front bookcase

 

 

 

Transitional Early Victorian enclosed-front bookcase - Scrolled bracket feet on casters

 

 

 



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