Collecting Antiques for Pleasure and Profit
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COLLECTING ANTIQUES FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT by FELIX GADE.First published in 1922 this book provides a narrative of twenty-five years search for antique furniture, prints, china, paintings and other works of art, copiously pictured with many fine examples. Contents include: INTRODUCTION. PART I. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. CHAPTER I. LACQUER AND MARQUETRY .... 29 Simple Oak Furniture. The Restoration a period of Luxury and Magnificence. Encouragement of Art and Beauty. Craze for Lacquer Work. Superiority of Oriental productions. The ideal existence of the Oriental craftsman. Difference between Oriental and European specimens. Quiet English marquetry. The * Seaweed/ II, TWIST-LEG FURNITURE AND GATE TABLES . 86 Value of Twist-leg furniture. Its variety. Good colour in oak furniture. Scarcity of good Gate tables. The Crutch table. Jacobean mouldings. French work. Local characteristics. III. CROMWELLIAN CHAIRS 42 Special charm of old pieces. Suitable coverings for Cromwellian chairs. Evidences of faking. Differences between Continental and English examples. Farthingale chairs. IV. OAK CHESTS 46 First piece of household furniture. Linenfold panels. Nonesuch chests. The Marquetry of Siena. Variety of Moulding, Patent Paint Re movers. Collecting Antiques PART II. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. CHAPTER I> ACIE I. QUEEN ANNE FURNITURE ... 5ft Exquisite simplicity. Worm-eaten furniture. Old Colour which cannot be imitated, English styles copied abroad. An English cabinet-maker at Ix* g horn. Copies by Italian workmen. Lack of finish. The effect of careful restoration. Black Italian furniture. A fine piece from Wales. Modern reproductions of the antique.. The romance of some Queen Anno needlework. C* eso work* An old-time popular design. II. THE CHIPPENDALE PERIOD . 64 Chippendales career. The house of Hatpf and Chippendale* Account rendered to Gurriek, Contemporary books of deaijw. The * Venus Martin. Painted furniture. The Artn should bt* combined. One ot Chippendales happient in spiration
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