Furniture Foot Flashcards
What type of foot resembles an animal’s claw grasping a ball?
Ball and Claw Foot.
What is a variation of the ball and claw foot that is attached to a bracketed body?
Ball and Claw Bracket Foot.
What 17th-century foot is characterized by two scrolls, with the bottom scroll turning inward and the upper scroll turning outward?
Flemish Scroll Foot.
What foot style, also called Paintbrush Foot, Portuguese Foot, or Braganza, has an inward-turning scroll at the bottom with vertical grooves above?
Spanish Foot.
What foot style extends side panels below the body of a furniture piece and was supposedly used by cowboys to remove boots?
Bootjack Foot.
What round, turned foot either terminates a leg or serves independently as a support for a case piece?
Ball Foot.
What is another name for a Drake Foot?
Trifid Foot.
What carved foot features three to four toes or prominent ribs on its upper surface?
Drake Foot.
What foot has a vertical profile in the form of an S-curve or cyma reversa curve?
Ogee Bracket Foot.
What type of foot consists of two brackets mitered and joined below the corners of a furniture piece?
Bracket Foot.
What is another name for a Bun Foot?
Onion Foot.
What type of foot is a round, turned foot that is flattened at the top and bottom?
Bun Foot.
What foot is carved in the shape of a stylized fish?
Dolphin Foot.
What short, broad foot tapers downward?
Stub Foot.
What 18th-century foot generally terminates a cabriole leg?
Dutch Foot.
What variation of a Dutch Foot resembles a slipper?
Slipper Foot.
What variation of a Dutch Foot is called a Pad Foot?
Pad Foot.
What variation of a Dutch Foot is called a Snake Foot?
Snake Foot.
What variation of a Dutch Foot has a pad with three pointed outlines like a drake foot but without carving?
Dutch Angular.
What bracket foot has a vertical profile that splays outward slightly at the bottom?
French Bracket Foot.
What carved foot is decorated with three scrolls or spiraled grooves?
Tern Foot.
What is another name for a Hoof Foot?
Pied de Biche.
What carved foot resembles an animal’s hoof and dates back to ancient Egypt?
Hoof Foot.
What is another name for a Spade Foot?
Therm Foot.
What block-shaped foot tapers slightly towards the bottom, resembling a shovel?
Spade Foot.
What foot is a decorated bun foot with incised vertical lines spaced regularly around its circumference?
Melon Foot.
What type of ball foot has a vertical profile in the form of a cyma recta curve?
Pear Foot.
What carved foot terminates a leg and scrolls outward?
Scroll Foot or Whorl Foot.
What carved foot resembles a bear’s paw?
Bear’s Claw Foot.
What carved foot resembles a lion’s paw?
Lion’s Paw Foot.
What type of hoof foot is split or cloven?
Cloven Foot.
