A cabriole leg is one of (usually) four vertical supports of a piece of furniture shaped in two curves; the upper arc is convex, while lower is concave;...
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more rectangular, with a solid, more or less fiddle-shaped splat and a cabriole leg with pad feet. The more ornamental examples had cane seats and ill-proportioned...
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predecessors," and examples in common use include "curving shapes, the cabriole leg, cushioned seats, wing-back chairs, and practical secretary desk-bookcase...
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for furniture ornament, used as an arm rest support or to decorate a cabriole leg. Occasionally, a lion's paw or pelt appears alongside the mask. Lions...
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arranged in a way that one corner, sometimes rounded, frequently with a cabriole leg, is positioned in front while the rounded or angled backrest is aligned...
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raised on slender cabriole legs; under the influence of neoclassicism, examples made after about 1775 had straight, tapering legs. The marchand-mercier...
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monarchs Persecution of Huguenots under Louis XV Kingdom of Navarre Cabriole leg Étienne François, Duc de Choiseul Suppression of the Jesuits Louis heel...
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in the Queen Anne, early Georgian, and Chippendale styles often have cabriole legs, carved knees, and slipper or claw-and-ball feet. The fronts of some...
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century in a shape of bureau on top of shallow drawers supported by the cabriole legs with toilet mirror above the bureau. By the middle of the 18th century...
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table stamped by Oeben and his brother-in-law R.V.L.C. has pierced cabriole legs, for an unusual effect of lightness and grace. Its mounts bear Pompadour's...
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front of the desk stands on thick legs or pillars which are often highly carved, somewhat exaggerated, thick cabriole legs, but these are not essential. Davenport...
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Philadelphia highboy with cabriole legs. A lowboy in the same style might likely consist of the lower two drawers....
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with rose pink enamel on a guilloché field. The egg is supported by cabriole legs of green-gold leaves with rose-cut diamond dewdrops. The gold-stemmed...
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woman appears (illustrated within the work) in a lyre shaped chair by a cabriole leg desk at work while her husband minds the couple's child. In a further...
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fruitwoods or walnut. Armchairs and couches had several cartouches and cabriole legs as in French designs, but usually looked more like joined-together seats...
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Foot (furniture) (section Types of leg)
furniture legs. Legless furniture may be slightly raised off of the floor by their feet. The types of feet include: Ball foot Bracket foot Bun foot Cabriole bracket...
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Henry Belter in New York City. This table featured a white marble top, cabriole legs carved with birds and grapes, clawed feet, and a carved, pierced apron...
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example, contain sets of ding among others that are shallow and have cabriole legs. The role of ding vessels in the Zhou period continued, as Qin cemeteries...
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Features typically associated with French Provincial furniture include cabriole legs, and simple scalloped carving. Dining chairs often have a wheat pattern...
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to as a stretcher beam. A very common pattern for chairs has each front leg connected to the back by the lateral stretchers, which in turn are connected...
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Glossary of ballet (redirect from Cabriole (ballet))
leg, sending it higher. The landing is then made on the underneath leg. Cabriole may be done devant, derrière and à la seconde in any given position...
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very delicate figures carved in low relief. This little box stands on cabriole legs 3/4 of an inch long with claw feet, quite Louis Quinze in character...
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instrument as standing on a fine mahogany table with six finely carved cabriole legs, the whole covered with a multi-panelled protective glass shade which...
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classical in style, and rather than having cabriole legs usually had elegantly decorated straight, demi-lune at most, legs. Armachairs made in Italy were based...
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Lancaster also stated that French furniture, much of it gilt and with cabriole legs, which was such a large part of 17th-, 18th-, and early 20th-century...
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Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg, and he shows the process to create a cabriole leg with a ball and claw foot. 43 404 "The Wainscot Chair" 27 October 1984 (1984-10-27)...
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were hung in the room, and 42 rosewood balloon-back side chairs with cabriole legs and a heart-shaped crest were purchased. They were upholstered in purple...
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rounded flat pads or disks at the end of furniture legs. Pad feet were regularly used on cabriole legs during the 18th century. They can be found on tables...
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distinguishing characteristics included its curvilinear design, cabriole-style legs, and scallop-shell carvings. Queen Anne's Bounty, a tax used to augment...
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Museum (illustration) reflecting vestiges of the Rococo in stiffened cabriole legs and the softened transitions between planes. He was one of a number...
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