This section is from the book "The Practical Book Of Period Furniture", by Harold Donaldson Eberlein And Abbot McClure. Also available from Amazon: The Practical Book Of Period Furniture.
This Key gives the characteristic articles of furniture in the distinctive style of each successive period, thereby aiding the reader in identifying the period of any particular piece of furniture he may have in view.
In using the Key for this purpose note carefully the shape and prominent characteristics of the article to be identified and then run through the Key until those characteristics are found.
Then refer to the chapter on that period, where numerous other illustrations and full details are given, and if the article is a genuine piece of period furniture or a correct reproduction the identification can be made complete.
The Chronological Key Illustrations appear by Courtesy of the following:
Plate I.
Fig. 1. Metropolitan Museum.
Fig. 2. Penna. Hist. Soc.
Fig. 3. Metropolitan Museum.
Fig. 4. Metropolitan Museum.
Fig. 5. Metropolitan Museum.
Fig. 6. Metropolitan Museum.
Plate II.
Fig. 7. Metropolitan Museum.
Fig. 8. Metropolitan Museum.
Fig. 9. Metropolitan Museum.
Plate III.
Fig. 1. Metropolitan Museum.
Fig. 2. Chapman Decorative Co.
Fig. 3. Mr. A. F. C. Bateman.
Fig. 4. Chapman Decorative Co.
Plate IV.
Fig. 1. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 2. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Fig. 3. Messrs. E. J. Holmes & Co.
Plate V.
Fig. 4. Messrs. Gill & Reigate.
Fig. 5. Messrs. Gill & Reigate.
Fig. 6. Metropolitan Museum.
Fig. 7. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 8. Mr. H. Burlingham.
Fig. 9. Messrs. Gill & Reigate.
Fig. 10. Joseph I. Doran, Esq.
Plate VI.
Fig. 1. Messrs. Gill & Reigate.
Fig. 2. Messrs. Gill & Reigate.
Fig 3. Mr. Joel Koopman.
Fig. 4. H. D. Eberlein, Esq.
Fig. 5. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 6. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 7. John T. Morris, Esq.
Fig. 8. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 9. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Plate VII.
Fig. 1. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 2. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 3. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Fig. 4. Mr. R. W. Lehne.
Fig. 5. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Fig. 6. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Plate VIII.
Fig. 1. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Fig. 2. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 3. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 4. Edmund B. Gilchrist, Esq.
Fig. 5. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 6. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Plate IX.
Fig. 1. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 2. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Fig. 3. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Fig. 4. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Fig. 5. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Fig. 6. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 7. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Plate X.
Fig. 1. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 2. Mr. H Burlingham.
Fig. 3. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 4. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 5. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Plate XI.
Fig. 1. Mr. Arthur S. Vernay.
Fig. 2. Messrs. Robson & Sons.
Fig. 3. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 4. Mr. Arthur S. Vernay.
Fig. 5. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 6. James M. Townsend, Esq.
Fig. 7. Mr. R. W. Lehne.
Plate XII.
Fig. 1. Mr. Arthur S. Vernay.
Fig. 2. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 3. Mr. Arthur S. Vernay.
Fig. 4. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 5. Mr. Arthur S. Vernay.
Plate XIII.
Fig. 1. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 2. Mr. James Curran.
Fig. 3. Mr. Albert J. Hill.
Fig. 4. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 5. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Fig. 6. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 7. Mr. Joel Koopman.
Fig. 8. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Plate XIV.
Fig. 1. Miss Mary H. Northend
Fig. 2. Messrs. Hale & Kilburn.
Fig. 3. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Fig. 4. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Fig. 5. Messrs. Maple & Co.
Plate XV.
Fig. 1. Penna Museum and School of Industrial Art.
Fig. 2. Mr. Joel Koopman.
Fig. 3. Metropolitan Museum.
Fig. 4. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Plate XVI.
Fig. 1. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Fig. 2. Mr. Joel Koopman.
Fig. 3. Mr. James Curran.
Fig. 4. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Fig. 5. Mr. James Curran.
Fig. 6. Mr. James Curran.
Plate XVII.
Fig. 1. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Fig. 2. Mr. James Curran.
Fig. 3. Mr. James Curran.
Fig. 4. Mr. James Curran.
Fig. 5. Mr. Joel Koopman.
Fig. 6. Mr. James Curran.
Plate XVIII.
Fig. 1. H. D. Eberlein, Esq.
Fig. 2. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Fig. 3. Mr. James Curran.
Fig. 4. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 5. John T. Morris, Esq.
Fig. 6. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 7. Mr. James Curran.
Fig. 8. Mr. James Curran.
Plate XIX.
Fig. 1. James M. Townsend, Esq.
Fig. 2. Miss Mary H. Northend.
Fig. 3. H. D. Eberlein, Esq.
Fig. 4. Richard A. Canfield, Esq.
Fig. 5. H. D. Eberlein, Esq.
Fig. 6. H. D. Eberlein, Esq.
Fig. 7. John T. Morris, Esq.
Fig. 8. Miss Mary H. Northend.
 
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