This document summarizes furniture styles from the Jacobean and William and Mary periods in England. Jacobean furniture was heavily ornate with expensive materials like walnut, ebony, and ivory. It featured sculptural details implying dramatic movement. William and Mary style saw the rise in popularity of upholstery over intricate woodwork. China cabinets were developed to hold the Queen's collection, and furniture grew simpler with bun feet and cabriole legs.

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4. Jacobean

5. English Baroque

6. William and Mary English Period

7. – Jacobean
• Jacobean Architecture
• English Baroque
• Architecture
• Characteristics

8. Heavily ornate with expensive
materials. Features were sculptural
and implied dramatic movement. S
and C-scrolls.

9. Figural subjects “holding” the
furniture up.

10. Large and strictly symmetrical.
Appearance came before function.

11. Walnut, ebony, ivory, silver. The use of
ormolu – or gilt bronze – in inlays.

12. Chairs with high backs, squared legs
with curved, diagonal stretchers.

13. Marquetry on wardrobes – called
armoires – depicted famous events.

14. – William and Mary 1689-1702

15. Upholstery became popular with the
stuff over technique.

16. The china cabinet was developed to
hold the Queens’ hobby,

17. The bureau with a bookcase was set
on stands.

18. Back legs matched front legs.

19. Feet were simple bun or pear shaped
or goat’s hoof.

20. First cabriole leg was often left square.

21. Smaller dining rooms changed the
emphasis on dining furniture.

22. Gateleg tables.

23. Flemish Scroll.

24. Apart from the bed, bedroom
furniture had not yet taken.

25. Cabinets, bureaux, day beds, tables
and easy chairs were used.

26. There was no dressing table: usually a
gilded framed mirror hung over the
toilet table.

27. Tallboys began to develop raised off
the unusual stand.