associated with Italian and French furniture of
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a matter of fact this
form of leg is as old as the Romans and is really the same as the
animal legs of wood or bronze, used as supports for tripods and tables
by Assyrians, Egyptians and Greeks. The cabriole leg may be defined as
"a convex curve above a concave one, with the point of junction
smoothed away. On Italian console tables and French commodes we see
the two simple curves disguised by terminal figures."

The rocaille (shell) ornament on the Chippendale as well as the
cabriole leg copied from Italy and France, and the Dutch foot from
Holland, substantiate our claim that Chippendale used what he found
wherever he found it irrespective of the stigma of plagiarism.

There is a beautiful book by F.S. Robinson in which the entire subject
of English furniture is treated in a most charming fashion.

Now let us return a moment to the Jacobean period. It was under
Charles I that couches and settles became prominent pieces of
furniture. Some of the Jacobean chairs are like those made in Italy,
in the seventeenth century, with crossed legs, backs and seats covered
with red velvet. Other Jacobean chairs had scrollwork carved and
pierced, with central panel in the back of embroidery, while the seat
was of cane.

Some of the Jacobean cabinets had panels of ebony, the other parts
inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ivory.

The silver Jacobean furniture is interesting and the best examples of
this type are said to be those belonging to Lord Sackville. They are
of ebony with silver mountings.

Yorkshire is noted for its Jacobean furniture, but some famous rooms
done in this style are at Langleys, in Essex, the seat of Col.
Tufnell, where the ceilings and mantels are especially fine and the
library boasts interesting panelled walls, once enlivened by stained
glass windows, when this room was used as a private chapel for the
family.

Jacobean carving was never ornate.

Twenty years later came the Queen Anne period. Queen Anne chairs show
a solid splat, sometimes vase-shaped, and strap-work arabesques. Most
of the legs were cabriole, instead of the twisted turnings (on Stuart
lines) which had been Supports for chairs, cabinets and tables. The
Queen Anne chair legs terminated when cabriole, in claws and balls or
simple balls. Settees for two were then called "love seats," and
"pole-screens" belonged to this period, tall, slender poles