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There are, too, in some illustrations in "Shaw's Ancient Furniture," some lamp-holders, in which this spiral turning is overdone, as is generally the case when any particular kind of ornament comes into vogue. In carved ebony, part of Indo-Portuguese suite at Penshurst Place, with Flemish folding chair.
The King of Portugal had ceded Bombay, one of the Portuguese Indian stations, to the new Queen, and there is a chair of this Indo-Portuguese work, carved in ebony, now in the museum at Oxford, which was given by Charles II. either to Elias Ashmole or to Evelyn: the illustration on the next page shews all the details of the carving.
In connection with this Indo-Portuguese furniture, it would seem that spiral turning became known and fashionable in England during the reign of Charles II., and in some chairs of English make, which have come under the writer's notice, the legs have been carved to imitate the effect of spiral turning an amount of superfluous labour which would scarcely have been incurred, but for the fact that the country house-carpenter of this time had an imported model, which he copied, without knowing how to produce by the lathe the effect which had just come into fashion.
The dust was so raised that we could see only a few feet from the flat, and the flat so rolled that every now and then a splash of water came in at the windows. A scene of great confusion ensued. Some Indo-Portuguese servants were on their knees, imploring Mary "Mariam, Mariam!" to save them. The Hindus were loud in their appeals to "Ram, Ram!" while the Muhammadans shouted "Allah, Allah!"
Jacobean furniture. Charles Eastlake Monuments at Canterbury and Westminster Settles, Couches, and Chairs of the Stuart period Sir Paul Pindar's House Cromwellian Furniture The Restoration Indo-Portuguese Furniture Hampton Court Palace Evelyn's description The Great Fire of London Hall of the Brewers' Company Oak Panelling of the time Grinling Gibbons and his work The Edict of Nantes Silver Furniture at Knole William III. and Dutch influence Queen Anne Sideboards, Bureaus, and Grandfather's Clocks Furniture at Hampton Court.
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