Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary

Shell

Architecture

See coquillage

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Furniture

A decorative motif

Examples of shells: cockleshell, rocaille, scallop

The 17th Century Baroque period featured the use of heavy moldings

Similar to fan designs and sunbursts.

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Examples from Buffalo:

• Adam style sideboard - Knox House
  
  
• Queen Anne side chair. - Private collection, Buffalo, NY
  
  
• Chippendale highboy - Private collection, Buffalo, NY
  
  
• Queen Anne highboy - Lang Collection
  
  
• Queen Anne highboy - Private collection, Buffalo, NY
  
  
• Reproduction Chippendale bench - Kittinger Furniture Company
  
  
• Private collection, Amherst, NY Transitional
  
  
• Empire style lyre clothes rack and umbrella stand - Boies-Lord House (Hamburg)

Other examples:

• Illustration above: Fairmount Park Woodford House, Philadelphia
  
  
• Block-front shell chest of drawers. - DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, Va
  
  
• Chippendale Federal chest-on-chest - Winterthur Museum

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Photos and their arrangement © 2005 Chuck LaChiusa
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