Illustrated Architecture Dictionary .................................. Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary .
Drop
Also called drop finial or pendant finial
Wooden decorative element , often urn- or bell-shaped, hanging from the skirt of a table or seat rail of a chair
A type of pendant.
See also: finial
Architecture examples:
- Illustration: Holley House, LOCKPORT
Furniture examples:
- Illustration: Chippendale highboy - Private collection, Buffalo, NY
- Acorn drop - Queen Anne lowboy - Lang Collection
- Empire pedestal table - Private collection, Buffalo, NY
- Chippendale lowboy - Fairmount Park Woodford House, Philadelphia
- Pilgrim cupboard - Winterthur Museum
- William and Mary dressing table - Winterthur Museum
- Acorn drops - Queen Anne Lowboy - Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, Va.
- Late Classic (pillar and scroll) drop leaf table - Boies-Lord House (Hamburg)
