Canape

See Sofa.

Candelabrum

A tall or short ornamental branched candlestick; a chandelier; a stand for a lamp.

Candlebox

A small oblong wooden box, with a shaped high back, and sometimes fitted with a lid, for storing candles. Candle-boxes were often hung upon the kitchen wall. It has been said that the first article constructed in England of mahogany was a candle-box made for a Dr. Gibbon, whose brother, a West India captain, had sent him some planks of this wood which was destined to revolutionize English furniture. No date has, however, been assigned to the incident, which is probably apocryphal.

Candlestand

A light stand, used not only for candles but for vases and other light ornaments. Candlestands were made in early Georgian times and onwards throughout the eighteenth century, and are especially associated with tripod furniture. See Torchere.

Candle Slide

A thin pull-out tray running in slots, usually with a small brass knob, often fitted at each side of the base of the bookcase portion of a bureau-bookcase upon which to stand a candle.

Candlestick

A socketed holder for a candle or candles. Candlesticks were made in very ancient times, some, like those in the British Museum, being dated 3000 B.C., and they continue to be made in every kind of wood, metal, china and earthenware and in an infinite variety of patterns. The eighteenth-century candlestick was often of considerable elegance.

Cane

Cane began to be used for the seats and backs of chairs and "day-beds" soon after the middle of the seventeenth century, and was in vogue until the end of it. At first the meshes were large, but afterwards they became smaller. In the reign of William and Mary, upholstery usually replaced the cane panel in the back and seat.

Canopy

See Tester.

Canopy Chair (O. Fr. Chayer A Dorseret)

A stately but cumbrous chair, used by persons of importance in the fifteenth and the early sixteenth centuries, with a broad back turned over at the top forming a canopy. It was sometimes richly ornamented with Gothic carving. See Seigneurial Chair.

Canted

Chamfered, bevelled, or splayed. The word is sometimes used to denote a bevelled corner which projects in a marked manner, as in the case of a serpentine front.

Canterbury

A supper-tray originally said to have been invented by an unidentified Archbishop of Canterbury in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Sheraton describes it as "made to stand by a table at supper, with a circular end, and three partitions crosswise, to hold knives, forks and plates at that end which is made circular on purpose." In a later period the name was given to a carved stand with divisions for music.

Caqueteuse

See Conversation Chair.

Carcase Or Carcass

The framework of a piece of furniture without its carving, veneer, or other surface ornamentation.

Card-Table

At the end of the seventeenth century small tables for tea, cards, etc., became very popular. The folding card-table dates from the time of William and Mary. It usually had depressions at the corners "dished" for candles and four wells for money and was often covered with green baize. In their main characteristics, card-tables follow the furniture fashions of the period in which they were made. Cards were first taxed in the reign of Queen Anne.