Louis XIV, 1643 to

1715-Key-note The Grand Audience Rooms

Compressed regularity giving way in reaction to a pon- -derous ugliness.

Straight square grooved and very squat cabriole legs.

The Regency and Louis XV, 1715 to 1774

Key-note The Boudoir

The Reign of Woman.

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Cabriole legs of 1 perfect lightness and grace.

Louis XVI, 1774 to

1793 Key-note

The Salon In time

The transition style between the Bourbon Interior Decoration and that of the "Directorate" and "Empire," characterised by a return to the clas-sic line which reflects a more serious turn of mind on part of the Nation in an age of great mental activity.

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Legs tapering, straight, rounded and grooved. A few square-grooved legs and a few graceful, slender cabriole legs.

Gothic Period, Through 14th

Century.

Almost no furniture exists of the 13th Century. We get the majority of oar ideas from illustrated manuscripts of that time. The furniture was carved oak or plain oak ornamented with iron scroll work, intended both for strength and decoration.

Renaissance or Elizabethan, 16th Century.

The characteristic, heavy, wide mould-ings and small panels, and heavy round carving.

Jacobean or Stuart Period, 17th Century.

Walnut Period, late 17th Century.

Panels large and mouldings very narrow and flat, or no mouldings at all, and flat carving. The classic influence shown during the period of the Commonwealth in designs, pilasters and pediments was the result of a classic reaction, all elaboration being resented. The Restoration brought in elaborate carving. Dutch influence is exemplified in the fashion for inlaying imported from Holland, as well as the tulip design. Turned legs, stretchers, borders and spiral turnings, characterized Jacobean style.

In the Gothic Period (extending through 14th Century), as the delightful irregularity in line and decoration shows, there was No Set Type; each piece was an individual creation and showed the personality of maker.

Tables, chests, presses (wardrobes), chairs and benches or settles.

During Renaissance or Elizabethan Period (16th Cen-tury) types begin to establish and repeat themselves.

Tables, chests, presses, chairs, benches, settles, and small chests of drawers.

In the Jacobean (17th Century) there was already a set type, pieces made all alike, turned out by the hundreds.

Inlaying in ebony, ivory, mother-of-pearl, and ebonised oblong bosses of the jewel type (last half of 17th Century). The tulip design introduced from Holland as decoration. Turned and carved frames and stretchers; caned seats and hacks to chairs, velvet cushions, velvet satin damask and needlework upholstery, the seats stuffed.

Protestant.

Queen Elizabeth. The Elizabethan Period."

Stuart. Roman Catholic. "Jacobean."

James I. 1603.

Charles I. (Puritan Revolution), 1628.

Puritan.

Oliver Cromwell. 1649. Commonwealth.

Stuart. Roman Catholic, "Jacobean."

Charles II. (1660), Restoration.

James II. (1686), Deposition and Flight

Protestant.

[William-Prince of Orange (Holland), 1688. Who had married the English Princess Mary and was the only available Protes-tant (1688).

Protestant.

Queen Anne (1702-1714).