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Updated: June 5, 2025
All of them, in these moments of anguish the five K'ang-hsi vases on the mantelpiece, brought home by some seafaring Guion of Colonial days, the armorial "Lowestoft" in the cabinets, the Copley portraits of remote connections on the walls, the bits of Chippendale and Hepplewhite that had belonged to the grandfather who built Tory Hill all of them took on now a kind of personality, as with living look and utterance.
Hepplewhite was a bachelor probably if the truth could be known lived a life of horrid depravity and crime. Indeed there was a man named Tutt, of whom Mr. Hepplewhite had never before heard, who publicly declared that he, Tutt, would show him, Hepplewhite, up for what he was and make him pay with his body and his blood, to say nothing of his money, for what he had done and caused to be done.
"Answer the question!" suddenly shouted Mr. Tutt. "But I thought " he began. "Don't think!" retorted the court sarcastically. "The time to think has gone by. Answer!" "I don't know what the question is," stammered Mr. Hepplewhite, thoroughly frightened. "Lord! Lord!" groaned O'Brien in plain hearing of the jury. Mr. Tutt sighed sympathetically in mock resignation.
Shearer is now hardly known even by name to the general world, but without doubt his ideal of lightness and strength in construction had a good deal of influence on his contemporaries and followers. Hepplewhite was very fond of oval and semi-circular shapes, and many of his tables are made in either one way or the other.
Tutt, and I'm rather of the opinion that it's rot," announced Tutt as he strolled across from his own office to that of his senior partner for a cup of tea at practically the very moment when Mr. Hepplewhite was advising Mrs. Wells. "In the vernacular bunk."
Hepplewhite who has been referred to in the testimony as the owner of the house in which the defendant was found?" inquired O'Brien. "Yes yes," answered Mr. Hepplewhite deprecatingly. "The first witness Bibby is in your employ?" "Yes yes." "Did you have a silver tea set of the value of er at least five hundred dollars in the house?" "It was worth fifteen thousand," corrected Mr. Hepplewhite. "Oh!
From such a comparison it will be seen that in the progress from the rococo of Chippendale to the more severe lines of Sheraton, Hepplewhite forms a connecting link between the two. Urn Stand. The names given to some of these designs appear curious; for instance: "Rudd's table or reflecting dressing table," so called from the first one having been invented for a popular character of that time.
Many people date Hepplewhite's fame from the time of the publication of his book, "The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide," in 1788, not realizing that he had been dead for two years when it appeared. Its publication was justified by the well established popularity of his furniture and the success with which his designs were carried out by A. Hepplewhite & Co.
Everything was plain, but equally obviously everything was expensive, and the general impression given was that the owner had no desire to be surrounded by things he did not want, but insisted on the superlative quality of the things he did. The rugs, for instance, happened to be of silk, the bookcase happened to be Hepplewhite, the piano bore the most eminent of makers' names.
For instance, do not buy any Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean, or Charles II furniture made of mahogany or with a high polish. Do not buy any with finicky or delicate brass handles. This may seem an unnecessary warning, but I have seen dainty oval Hepplewhite handles used on a heavy Jacobean chest.
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