English Flashcards
Woods used in English Furniture
Oak, Walnut, Mahogany, Satinwood
Noteworthy English Furniture Designers
William Kent, Thomas Chippendale
Split Spindle
A long, slender turned spindle that has been cut in half lengthwise, commonly applied as ornament to furniture and cabinetry of 17th-century England and America.
Arcaded Panel
Typical English Renaissance panel decoration consisting of two stubby columns with arches in low relief, also used on chests in the French Renaissance.
Wattle-and-daub
Area between wooden posts on a half-timbered exterior. Could be brick, mortar, or plaster.
Also,
Construction made of interwoven poles or sticks (wattle) on which is plastered a layer of clay, dung, or mud (daub).
Gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof.
Half-timbered
A type of exposed wood framing with an infill of plaster, brick, stone, or masonry, often filled with a daub of clay, sticks, and mud.
Apsidal
A small apse on the aisle side of a Christian church or basilica.
Scagliola
From the Italian term scaglia, meaning chip. A faux marble produced from plaster or cement and marble chips. Evidence shows use of scagliola in ancient Rome. It was also popular during the Italian Baroque and continued through the19th century, particularly with the Adam brothers in England.
Strapwork
Flat, carved intertwining bands that resemble leather straps, often used in ceilings, panels, screens, and furniture.
- Used in arabesque and rinceau.
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Seaweed Marquetry
- Fine scale, linear veneer/marquetry design.
- Only two kinds of wood.
- English William and Mary and Queen Anne period
Bolection
A molding projecting far past the wall plane or panel to which it is applied. Often used to conceal a joint between surfaces of different levels. Also called balection, belection, bellexion, bilection, and bolexion.
Jappanning
A process, much used in the eighteenth century by which furniture and metalwork were enameled with colored shellac and the decoration raised and painted with gold and colors.
Name technique used:
Parcel gilt (Partly guilded)
Name this technique:
Crossbanding
A term used when a narrow border of veneer is inserted on the surface of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the wood veneer is at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood.
Ribband-back
A Chippendale chair back characterized by interlacing carved ribbons connecting the stiles.
Marlborough leg
A straight, sometimes fluted leg usually terminating with a block foot.
Spade
A tapered rectangular furniture foot resembling the blade of a garden shovel or spade, popular in the 18th-century English designs of George Hepplewhite and Thomas Sheraton.
Pier glasses
A glass or mirror designed to stand on the floor against a wall surface, or a mirror designed to be placed between windows, over a chimney-piece, or over a console table.
Wainscot chairs
A wooden chair with a back paneled like a wainscot.
Turned legs
Turned legs
Melon bulb
A heavy, elaborately carved, bulbous turning resembling a melon in shape, commonly used as a support on Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture.
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Pad foot
A foot used to terminate a cabriole leg, characterized by a flat circular bottom with little or no carved ornamentation; similar to a club foot without the disk at the base.
Club foot
A round, pad-shaped foot found on a cabriole leg; used in 18thcentury English furniture.
Windsor chair
A popular 18th- and 19th-century chair in England and America made of wood and having a spindle back shaped in fans, hoops, or combs and sometimes spindle legs named for Windsor Castle. It is also called a stickback.
Chintz
A printed and glazed cotton fabric with floral designs, usually in bright colors; originally a painted or stained calico from India, used in Europe for bedcovers and draperies, especially toile de Jouy, which was manufactured from 1700 to 1843 at Juoy, near Paris. An unglazed calico is called cretonne.
Trifid foot
Styles within the English Renaissance period
Tudor style
Elizabethan style
Jacobean style
Cromwellian style
English Renaissance Domestic Characteristics
Plans were in shapes of letters: L, E, or H
- White washed / plastered half-timbered exterior
- Protruding second level so that waste water would not run down entire facade
Oriel window
A large bay window supported by corbels or brackets.
- Invented because taxes were based on room number, so space could be created without additional taxes.
Tudor arch
A flat pointed arch, usually drawn from four centers.
Tudor Chimney
- Chimneys and enclosed fireplaces became common for the first time.
Tudor architecture
- Tudor arch
- Decorative chimneys
- Bricks
Tuder interior characteristics
- Brick flooring. Second level may be random widths of wood planks.
- Tile (glazed, patterned, and plain), wood, and flagstone were used by all classes.
- Carpet was not common, but rush matting was common
- Occasionally matting was installed on wet plaster, fusing the mat to the floor
- Walls were dark paneled, paster, or textile hangings. Sometimes a combo.
- Ceilings were flat, coved, or vaulted. Sometimes with pargework decoration.
Pargework
A decorated plastered design applied to walls and ceilings, especially during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
- Only done by English
Tudor / English Renaissance
English Renaissance chair
- Influence from Gothic. Box-like, tracery, linenfold.
English Renaissance Oak Bedstead
- Linenfold motif
- Split spindle
Nonesuch Chest
- Architectural in concept
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English Renaissance Interior
- Romayne medallion
- Ceiling may be pargework
- Panelling
Refectory table
- bulbous form
- gadrooning
- acanthus leaf low releif
- lil ionic capital
- perimeter stretcher
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Palampores
- Painted cotton fabric from East India
- Often featured “Tree of Life” / Religious symbols
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Globe theater
- Half timber w/ wattle & daub
- Where Shakespear showed plays
- Thatched roof
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Arabesque
- Runs vertically
Rinceau
- Horizontal orientation
As the English Renaissance Moves on in terms of Furniture
- Foreign influence
- Pattern books
- Furniture: display and comfort
- Upholstery introduced
Inigo Jones
- Interested in Palladio
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
TURNED CHAIR
- Heavy proportion
- triangular seat
- Elizabethan
- Composed of “turnings”
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Wainscot chair
- one for the lord, one for the lady
- baluster leg
- lozenge or arcaded panel on back
- no longer has storage as in gothic time
- open arms, down-turning
- perimeter stretcher
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Imitation of oriental fabric, where yarns were pulled through a coarse fabric, knotted, and cut.
Turkey work
Farthingale Chair
- Does not have arms so that women wearing farthingales (hoop skirts) could be accomodated
- Box-like base w/ perimeter stretcher
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Yorkshire Derbyshire chair
- Arcaded back (Classical influence)
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SOFA
- Fringe
- Fully upholstered
- Turned front legs
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Court Cupboard
- Bulbous form
- For display
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Press Cupboard
- Press was always closed
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ENGLISH RENAISSANCE BED
- Four carved corner posts
- Long velvet draperies for warmth during cold nights
The great bed of Ware
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Bed for nobility
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Cromwellian
- End of Renaissance
- Religious wars.
- Industrial and artistic stagnation.
GATELEG TABLE
- Oak top
- Turned legs
CROMWELLIAN
Joined stool
- perimeter stretcher
- straight leg
Cromwellian
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
ENGLISH BAROQUE
- Elizabeth I dies, cromwellian period happens, then shit clears up and Baroque starts
- Curves, theatrical, opulent
Noteworthy people of English Baroque
Architects:
- Sir Christopher Wren
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- William Thalman
- Thomas Archer
- Nicholas Hawksmoor
Great Fire
Christopher Wren became leading architect. He copied Palladio (Italian Renaissance). Due to fire, Wren was able to build LOTS of buildings in London.
Fire spurred “Rebuilding Act of 1667” - codes for wall thickness, floor height, use of brick.
BAROQUE