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Furniture Styles. Legs: Cambriole. shaker. STYLE - Ladder back, simple, structural lines. Upholstered pieces: Lawson. A sofa with square back and arms at a lower level than the back. Chair Backs: lyre. Decorative feature: reeding. Parallel lines of rounded molding
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shaker • STYLE - Ladder back, simple, structural lines
Upholstered pieces: Lawson • A sofa with square back and arms at a lower level than the back.
Decorative feature: reeding • Parallel lines of rounded molding • Associated with Sheraton
Tables: pedestal • A table with a single center support
Case goods: buffet • A large sideboard with drawers and cupboards
Legs: Turned • Circular leg sometimes with decoration • Elaborate associated with Victorian • Simple associated with • Early American
Case goods: wardrobe/armoire • A standing closet used for clothes
Chairs: splatback • A chair with a slat of wood in the middle of the chair back.
Feet: Pad • Simple rounded carved foot • Associated with • Queen Anne
Feet: ball and claw • Carved claw grasping a ball • Associated with • Chippendale
Tables: Gate-leg • A table with one or two drop leaves that are supported when in use by a hinged leg swung out from the frame
Upholstered pieces: camelback • A back with a hump-shaped curve on a sofa or other piece of furniture
Upholstered pieces: tuxedo sofas • An upholstered sofa with slightly curved arms that are the same height as the back
Upholstered pieces: ottoman • A low upholstered seat, or footstool, without a back or arms that typically serves also as a box, with the seat hinged to form a lid
Duncan phyfe • STYLE - Lyre back, splayed legs, laurel leaves
Case goods: high Boy • A tall chest of drawers on legs
Case goods: secretary • A writing desk fitted with drawers, one of which can be pulled out and the front lowered to provide a flat writing surface.
chippendale • STYLE - Ball and claw foot, ears, Chinese influence- black lacquer Japanning, camelback couch
Chairs: side • An upright wooden chair without arms
Sheraton • STYLE - Square back, tapered legs
Legs: Cambriole • Curved leg in the shape of an animal’s leg • Associated with • Queen Anne
Queen Anne • STYLE - cabriole leg, pad foot, shell motif, wing chair
Modern/contemporary • May use one or more materials in construction—glass, wood, metal and plastics, textiles
hepplewhite • STYLE - Shield back, tapered legs
Legs: Splayed • Leg with a concave shape • Associated with • Duncan Phyfe
Early american • STYLE - turned legs, square, blocky with plank seat or cane seat