AMERICAN PAINTED FURNITURE queen anne chippendale japan

ISBN 0517625318

Size = Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

This book surveys the development of the variety of painted decoration in American furniture. It contains 577 illustrations, including 148 color plates. The objects shown have been drawn from over 100 sources.

CONTENTS:

1. EARLY COLONIAL
The 17th Century
Up the Connecticut River
Along the Connecticut Shore
The 18th Century
Legacy of Nieu Netherland
Patterns & Plain Paints

2. LATE COLONIAL
Japanning
Queen Anne & Chippendale
Early Windsors

3. FEDERAL
Federal Furniture
Painting on Glass
Fancy Furniture

4. AMERICAN EMPIRE

5. 19th CENTURY
Academy Painting
Hitchcocks
Pillars & Scrolls
Paint for Paint's Sake
Later Windsors

6. CULTURAL PATTERNS
Shaker Furniture
Pennsylvania German Furniture

7. VICTORIAN

Notes
Index

299 pages. Hard cover with UNCLIPPED dust jacket. NOT ex-library.

Weight = 1.5 kg

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