The Concise Encyclopedia of Antiques, Volume 1

Albert Museum American furniture applied artists baluster bowl cabinet cabinet-makers cabriole legs carved chair chests of drawers Chinese Chippendale circular classical clock collector colour cupboard curved decoration designs dial Duncan Phyfe Dutch edge eighteenth century embroidery enamel England English Furniture engraved étuis examples factory fashion feet figures finial floral flowers fluted French front Gall gilding gilt glass glaze Gothic ground hard-paste porcelain Hepplewhite highboys inlay John K'ang Hsi knop landscape later London mahogany mark marquetry Meissen metal mirrors motifs mouldings nineteenth century ornament oval ovolo painted painters panels patterns period pieces Plate popular porcelain portraits pottery printed Queen Anne rococo satinwood scroll seat seventeenth century shape Sheraton Sheraton style sideboard sixteenth century soft-paste porcelain sometimes Staffordshire stem stoneware stretchers style tion transfer-printed usually vases veneers verge escapement Victoria & Albert walnut wares watercolour William and Mary wood