[14] For description of method of gilding the mounts of furniture, see Appendix.
[15] For a short account of these Factories, see Appendix.
[16] Watteau, 1684-1721. Lancrel, _b_. 1690, _d_. 1743. Boucher, _b_. 1703, _d_. 1770.
[17] The Court room of the Stationers' Hall contains an excellent set of tables of this kind.
[18] The late Mr. Adam Black, senior partner in the publishing firm of A. and C. Black, and Lord Macaulay's colleague in Parliament, when quite a young man, assisted Sheraton in the production of this book; at that time the famous designer of furniture was in poor circumstances.
[19] The word Baroque, which became a generic term, was derived from the Portugese "barroco," meaning a large irregular-shaped pearl. At first a jeweller's technical term, it came later, like "rococo," to be used to describe the kind of ornament which prevailed in design of the nineteenth century, after the disappearance of the classic.
[20] Mr. Parker defines Dado as "The solid block, or cube, forming the body of a pedestal in classical architecture, between the base mouldings and the cornice: an architectural arrangement of mouldings, etc., round the lower parts of the wall of a room, resembling a continuous pedestal."
[21] Owen Jones' "Grammar of Ornament," a work much used by designers, was published in 1856.
[22] Essay by Mr. Edward S. Prior, "Of Furniture and the Room."
[23] Published in 1868, when the craze for novelties was at its height.
[24] Essay on "Decorated Furniture," by J. H. Pollen.
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