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Title: The practical book of period furniture, treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson McClure, Abbot, 1879-
Subjects: Furniture
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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onal wood of England, was of coursethe favourite and staple material from which Jacobeanand Cromwellian furniture was chiefly made and con-tinued popular in Carolean times when powerfulagencies were at work to supplant it. It has indeedretained a more or less constant measure of favourdown to the present day when its vogue is again inthe ascendant. In the later part of the Stuart periodit was often used as a groundwork in combinationwith other woods. It was plentiful and strong andsatisfied the proverbial British desire for weight,staunchness and durability. Walnut, used only sparingly as a precious woodin Elizabethan and early Jacobean times, came intocommon use for furniture about 1650 and from thenceonward was increasingly popular. Great numbers ofwalnut trees had been planted about 1560 and by themiddle of the seventeenth century the timber hadreached maturity. It was a more suitable medium forthe scrolls, twists and curves then coming into fashionand less likely to chip than oak.
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GRIXLIXG GIBBON MIRROR FRAME By Courtesy of Richard A. Canfield, Esq., New York City PLATE II JACOBEAN PERIOD 51 Cedak came into use about 1660. The most beau-tiful cedar furniture and the most frequently metwith is of Bermudian origin. The Bermuda cedar isof peculiarly rich and dark colour. Cherry was used though not to any considerableextent till late Carolean times. Elm and Beech were used for much of thesimpler furniture, but the wood not being of par-ticularly durable quality little of either has survived. Chestnut was occasionally employed and was con-sidered valuable. Deal. The term deal properly belongs to thewood of the fir or pine, but is often used to designatethe form in which lumber is cut. Bed deal is thewood of the Scotch pine and is highly esteemed anddurable. Pine, Pear and Lime were used for carving wheregilding or paint were to be applied. Mahogany was used for inlay, in one instance be-fore the Restoration, but only sparingly until late inthe century. This of cours

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