Political activity heavily influenced early to mid 19th century furniture style as seen in two dominant styles french and american empire.
18th century furniture leg styles.
Cabriole legs are one of the most distinguishable leg styles.
Klismos chairs typically have an open back divided by a supportive and decorative horizontal panel.
Fan and shell carvings embellish chair legs and cabinet fronts.
Birch maple walnut description.
Early colonial 17th century woods used.
Fan and shell carvings embellish chair legs and cabinet fronts.
Queen anne style furniture emerged during the reign of william iii of england.
This is a light chair whose front and back sets of legs flare away from each other.
Leg styles feature a cabriole or curved leg ending in a pad foot.
One notable exception to the subdued ornamentation of queen anne style furniture is japanning a technique developed in the west to imitate asian lacquerwork.
William and mary 1690 1735.
The baluster leg typically found on furniture from the 17th century resembles the balusters used in staircases and railings with slight lathe scrolling at the top cap and bottom quarter of the.
This is a simple basic furniture foot style with a square or cube like shape.
Basic american furniture styles.
It is characterized by cabriole legs pad or drake feet fiddle backed chairs and bat wing shaped drawer pulls.
It dates back to 5th century greece but the style experienced a comeback during the late 18th century neoclassical furniture movement.
William and mary style furniture was popular in the late 17th and early 18th century and is characterized by dutch and chinese influences trumpet turned legs spanish ball feet and oriental lacquer work.
Heavy decoration and carving.
Hybrid of english styles.
Victorian style reigned over furniture in the last half of the century but you can t use the term victorian to accurately describe a 19th century furniture style since the era is defined by style.
The following criteria will help you determine if your old furniture is an american made antique.
The fluted leg was modeled after ancient greek columns and it flourished in the neoclassical styles of the second half of the 18th century such as hepplewhite along with 19th century classical revival styles.
Although in existence from roughly 1600 to 1800 it was especially popular in mid 18th century english and american furniture.
In this type of furniture leg a series of rounded channels or grooves are carved vertically into a straight leg at regular intervals.
Modeled after animal legs they feature out curved.