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2. Queen Anne style furniture - Wikipedia

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   The chairs are attributed to William Savery. Queen Anne dressing table with cabriole legs. Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1730-1750. The Queen Anne style of furniture design developed before, during, and after the time of Queen Anne, who reigned from 1702 to 1714. [1]

3. Duncan Phyfe - Wikipedia

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   Duncan Phyfe (1768 – 16 August 1854) [1] was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers.. Rather than create a new furniture style, he interpreted fashionable European trends in a manner so distinguished and particular that he became a major spokesman for Neoclassicism in the United States, influencing a generation of American cabinetmakers.

4. Turned chair - Wikipedia

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   Turned chair, in the Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset, England (Early 17th century). Turned chairs – sometimes called thrown chairs or spindle chairs – represent a style of Elizabethan or Jacobean turned furniture that were in vogue in the late 16th and early 17th century England, New England and Holland.

5. Cabriole leg - Wikipedia

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   The cabriole leg returned in England in Queen Anne Style chairs between 1712 and 1760. [7] These chairs featured a back with hoop design, a vase-shaped splat , and a bun or pad foot . Another English design from the period follows Chinese style, with a flat cresting and vertical back edges.

6. History of the chair - Wikipedia

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   The most famous of the very few chairs which have come down from a remote antiquity is the reputed Chair of Saint Peter in St Peter's Basilica at Rome. The wooden portions are much decayed, but it would appear to be Byzantine work of the 6th century, and to be really an ancient sedia gestatoria. It has ivory carvings representing the labours of ...

7. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   Some had three legs, and large tables had four legs. Sometimes a figure of a man, usually representative of a captive, was used to support the table instead of a leg. Tables were made of wood, willow, or wicker. Although some were made of metal or stone. [49] [50] They were used for games and dining. A game called Mehen would be played on a one ...