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The FURNITURE of the CHIPPENDALES 
{Continued from page 88) 
earlier tj^ies developed from 
Queen Anne and Dutch mod¬ 
els and adapted with such 
consummate skill that the 
name of Chippendale is 
better known than that of 
any other English cabinet¬ 
maker. 
These are the notewor¬ 
thy characteristics of Chip¬ 
pendale furniture: 
Construction: Solid and 
well built with good propor¬ 
tions and grace. Rectangu¬ 
lar in Chinese types. Curv¬ 
ing lines in chairs, and in 
front and sides of chests of 
drawers—bombe. 
Ornament: Carving pre¬ 
eminent, bold and lavish, 
yet delicate and intricate; 
Gothic, Chinese, Georgian 
and French styles; acanthus 
A Chippendale 
carved chair leg 
leaf, fret 
work and fillets; the mouldings are archi¬ 
tecturally designed. Upholstery; Bro- the beautifully carved top with the vase 
cade, embroider>^ leather. Mounts plain ornament, swags and pendants; the design 
furniture. The mahogany 
chair in the Chinese style 
dates from about 1755- 
1760. Its seat is of crimson 
brocade. Note the charac¬ 
teristic broad splat in the 
back in fret work design; 
the characteristic bowed 
top varied by curves sug¬ 
gestive of Chinese style; the 
arm canted—leaning out¬ 
ward, ornamented with elab¬ 
orated fret work giving 
added support. The straight 
leg is carved to simulate 
rods bound together at in¬ 
tervals. It also has the 
characteristic block foot, 
carved with a geometrical 
design. 
The mahogany secretary 
bookcase, 1760 to 1790, is in 
Chippendale’s later style, approaching 
that of the early Sheraton models. Note 
or open-work; elaborate ormolu on 
French models. 
Top: Slightly arched, straight, swan- 
neck pediment, scrolled; chairs bow¬ 
shaped or slightly curved, pointed in 
Gothic or Chinese. 
Back: Shaped to the body; openwork 
central splat is characteristic, whether 
flat or elaborately carved; Gothic or 
Chinese fret designs, ladder and “rib¬ 
band” back; triple chair-backed settees. 
Upholstered. 
Arm: Joins back at an angle, straight 
or shaped, canted—flared outward. 
Seat: Flat, occasionally dropped; 
square corners, tapering straight toward 
the back; large Dutch seat characteristic. 
Upholstered. 
Leg: The cabriole is characteristic but 
others are straight and square; tripod 
table leg. 
Foot: Claw and ball especially charac¬ 
teristic, term—spade, club, hoof, pad, 
splay, web, leaf, dolphin. 
Chippendale furniture seems to be as 
accepted a fact with our race as the Eng¬ 
lish language and subject to about as little 
change or danger of loss. We cannot yet 
improve on Chippendale. His furniture 
meets our requirements today as ade¬ 
quately as in the i8th Century. 
A Chippendale room gives us a sense 
of ease in our house. It has dignity and 
importance but lacks bom¬ 
bast or pretense. It is the 
furniture par excellence of 
English speaking peoples. 
I'lie four photographs on 
page 88 show typical Chip¬ 
pendale pieces in the vari¬ 
ous “ manners” in which the 
(Chippendales designed their 
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A decorative key plate 
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of the glass doors; the fine carving on the 
corners of the lower section; and the char¬ 
acteristic bracket feet. 
Another tjpiG of chair is the one with 
the ribbon back. It dates from the i8th 
Century. Chippendale’s “ribband-back” 
chairs were his especial pride. The carv¬ 
ing on this chair is superb. The broad 
splat in the back is worked in a bow-knot 
of ribbon with streamers and carved 
scrolls with acanthus leaf motifs. The 
carving on the seat rail is very fine. The 
legs represent a lizard-like animal ending 
in a dolphin’s head for the front feet. The 
back feet are decorated with an acanthus 
leaf design. 
Still another example of the Chippen¬ 
dale taste is found in the mahogany side- 
table, dating about 1730 to 1750, in the 
so-called Irish Chippendale style, a style 
thought to have been in use before the 
time of Chippendale. Note the very wide 
drop of the apron below the table top with 
the scrolled acanthus leaf carving on a 
delicate latticed background. This table 
is especially fine. In his books Chippen¬ 
dale gives a great variety of table designs, 
side-tables being a feature, with carved 
svags and highly ornamental legs and 
supports. Such highly ornamented pieces 
should be kept in good company, with 
others highly ornamented, lest they ap¬ 
pear too ornate in the average room. In 
fact, that is true of most of 
the Chippendale designs. 
They appear to better ad¬ 
vantage when the room is 
carried out in its entirety 
in pieces of equal taste and 
design. 
In creacing a Chippendale 
{Continued on page 96) 
A leaf scroll table foot 
