Anglo-American Late Baroque Period: Queen Anne Style

Question 1

What are the nglo-American Late Baroque Period: Queen Anne Style Charateristics?

Answer 1

• Quoins are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall
• Curved and subtly carved parts.
• Carved motifs, primarily shells.
• Yoke-shaped top rails and solid vase-shaped splats on chairs; upholstered horseshoe-shaped seats.
• Cabriole legs.
• Feet: pad, slipper, trifid, and, later, claw-and-ball

Question 2

What are the Anglo-American Late Baroque Period: Queen Anne Leg Style Charateristics?

Answer 2

• Cabriole leg
  
  • Modeled after an animal’s leg, the S-shaped cabriole leg gives furniture a more intimate, human quality than the massive turned legs of the William and Mary style

Question 3

What are the Anglo-American Late Baroque Period: Queen Anne Feet Style Charateristics?

Answer 3

• pad
• spade
• trifid

Question 4

What are pad feet?

Answer 4

Question 5

What are spade feet?

Answer 5

• A furniture foot style consisting of a rectangular shape, wide at the top then tapering to a narrower base
  

Question 6

What are trifid feet?

Answer 6

Question 7

What are Bat’s wing escutcheon keyhole escutcheons?

Answer 7

Question 8

What are ball and claw feet?

Answer 8

Question 9

What are the Philly Characteristics?

Answer 9

Birds head in splat

Shell on crest rail

No Strechering

Hidden Impost

Carved side style

Question 10

What makes a side chair?

Answer 10

No arms means side chair

Question 11

What are the Boston Characteristics?

Answer 11

Conservative

Straight side styles

Cabroile leg

H-Form Strechers

Shell applied to splat

Lack of structure in ball and claw feet (more conservative)

Bombay exploded style on desk and bookcase

Question 12

What are the NEw York Style Characteritics?

Answer 12

Elaborae curved side styles

Ball and claw feet

heavily carved

no strechering to bring out curves

Shell carved on knee

Question 13

What are the Newport Characteristics?

Answer 13

Broken scroll on top on high chest

Shell added to block front

Zinnia Flower on scroll - unlike rose of Boston