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  2. History of wood carving - Wikipedia

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    Furniture was often carved in a way hardly legitimate. The legs, the rails of tables and chairs, the frames of cabinets, of looking-glasses, instead of being first made fcr construction and strength. and then decorated, were first designed to carry cherubs heads and rococo (i.e. rock and shell ornament), quite regardless of utility or convenience.

  3. Gettysburg furniture companies - Wikipedia

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    The Engle Furniture Company became the Reaser Furniture Company of Clayton S. Reaser in May 1907, [6] producing more than forty styles in addition to hand-carved pieces. In May 1917, the joint venture Stouck-Reaser Company [7] filed documents for incorporation to buy, sell and deal in wholesale lumber products. [8]

  4. Wood carving - Wikipedia

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    Woodcarver at work Wood sculpture made by Alexander Grabovetskiy. Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.

  5. Thomas Day (cabinetmaker) - Wikipedia

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    Overall, Day's architectural work, much like his furniture craftsmanship, focuses on creating a balance of motion through complementary curvatures. [18]: 161, 164–165 Unlike his furniture, however, Day sometimes added carved faces to his architectural work, especially on mantle pieces, as seen on a mantle in the Long House.

  6. John Jelliff - Wikipedia

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    One of the best-known undertakings of Jelliff & Miller is a parlor suite from the 1870s, consisting of a sofa, armchair and four side chairs, now in the Ballentine House, which adjoins the Newark Museum. Jelliff's crowning achievement in carved furniture is the bishop's throne, dating to about 1850, in Newark's St. Patrick's Roman Catholic ...

  7. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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    The importation of furniture into England from Flanders and Holland was so significant that a hundred years earlier a law was enacted forbidding the practice — nevertheless carved woodwork was one of the important articles of commerce with the Low Countries, and the country homes of England of this period were filled with articles of Dutch ...

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