English Periods

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An early food storage cupboard with a pierced door

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Aumbry

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A pointed arch with low rise.

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Four centered arch

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A mud or clay coating over a screen of interlaced wooden rods.

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Wattle and Daub

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Timber framework is filled in with brick, stone or pilaster

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Half Timbered Construction

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Cross cross pattern

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Diaper

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Originally battlements but later a parapet with alternating intentations used on English houses as ornamental detail

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Crenellation

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Bulbous form

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Front 8

Tudor Rose

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Front 9

The horizontal and vertical bars separating window lights glass

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Mullions

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Typical domestic roof was composed of massive beams which projected horizontally and we're connected by Tudor arch braces

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Hammer beam truss

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Bracket

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Corbel

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Relief carving resembling folded linen

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Linenfold

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Carve heads or medallions encircled by vines in Italian style

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Romayne work

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Derive from French gossip chair, was lighter than the wainscot chair and had a seat narrower at the rear , a tall narrow, carved panel back.

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Caquetoire chair

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Bow or semicircular window

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Oriel and bay windows

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A room in Jacobean and Elizabethan houses used for exercise and working during the winter months

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Long gallery

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Post at the end of the rail of a stairway

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Newel post

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A band of oval forms carved in relief

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Gadrooning

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An Elizabethan folding chair based on Italian design.

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Glastonbury chair

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A leg form resembling an iverted cup popular during William and Mary period

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Inverted Cup

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Window panes

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Lights

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A half moon shape

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Lunette

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A pattern of curving ,interlacing bands used in the Renaissance to ornament ceilings, fireplaces and so on

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Strapwork

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Short flights of ten steps with each flight flanking the preceding one

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Dog legged stairway

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Short flight that progressed at a right angles to one another

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Open well stairway

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A series of adjoining arches with supporting column was also used

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Double arcading

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Constructed of knotted pile with a cross stitch that was cut open

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Turkey work

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An upright ,upholstered armless chair popular in the restoration period named after the hoop women wore under their skirts

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Fartingale chair

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A table with one or two fold down leaves usually supported by movable legs

Back 29

Gateleg table

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A motif resembling the five petal rose set in the center of a circle

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Tudor Rose

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A close grained oak paneling which may continue to the ceiling.

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Wainscot

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A band of wood just under the seat of a chair or base of a cabinet

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Apron

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A Chinese paneled screen with has relief patterns on rich dark laquer

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Coromandel screen

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Carving on top rail of a back of a chair

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Cresting

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A Lacy delicate design pierced in metal wood or stone

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Filigree

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An English ornamentation of Oriental lacquer

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Japanning

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A diamond shape motif popular in English period

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Lozenge

Front 38

Inlaid veneer

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Marquetry

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An early unpadded seat with arms and high backs

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Settle

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An arabesque pattern of leaves and seaweed used in Mary and William period

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Seaweed marquetry

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Dress stone or break ckwork on corners of a building

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Quoin

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A white of creamy lime stone popularized by wren

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Portland stone

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An inlaid geometric floor pattern

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Parquetry

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A loose thin cushion used in renaissance

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Squab cushion

Front 45

A flat paneled and or carved wood canopy used on four poster bed

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Tester

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A spiral Turing used in restoration period

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Twist turning

Front 47

Carved many decorations for Wren buildings

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Grinling Gibbons

Front 48

A rounded projecting moulding with naturalistic high relief carving surrounding it

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Acanthus leaf bolection moulding

Front 49

A pasted used to make three dimensional decorations

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Gesso

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Introduced for seat and backs of furniture

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Cane

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A circular design formed by cutting across the grain of woods

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Oyster

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A narrow inlay of contrast in wood or metal

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Stringing

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Plan used to honor the queen

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H plan or E plan