Anglo-American Late Renaissance Period: Jacobean Style Characteristics

Question 1

What are the furniture features of the Late Renaissance Period?

Answer 1

• Oak was the chief wood
• Ash and maple used for turning and whittling
• Painted
• Mortise and tenon joining
  
• Iron hinges and lock plates held in place by wrought iron nails in case furniture
• Turning used for balusters, melon-bulbs, spindles, split spindles, bun feet
  
  • Baluster
  • Melon-Bulbs
• Flatter carving used the Renaissance motives - arcaded panels replaced linenfold patterns
  
  • Renaissance motives
  • arcaded panels
  • linenfold patterns
• Ionic capitals
  
• Weak acanthus leaves
  
• Guilloche and intertwined circles
  
• Palmettes
  
• Turning
  
• Bosses