- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Images (Booksellers & Distributors) Ltd (14 Jan 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 095176781X
- ISBN-13: 978-0951767818
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 715,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bill Cotton, Regional Furniture Society Newsletter, 1994
"His [Conybeare's] credentials for writing these texts include a passionate interest in Oak furniture from the 16th and 17th centuries, and particularly boxes and desks, of which he has collected, recorded and examined in detail, probably more than any researcher." "Conybeare's book represents the record of a dedicated observer of furniture who comes to the work without the formal reticence about speculation which guides the tutored academic, and in many ways the book has many fresh and intuitively derived themes as a result."
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Most books on English Antique Oak furniture are mainly concerned with the larger pieces such as beds, court cupboards, chests, tables and chairs. This is the first book to be dedicated entirely to the small English domestic table boxes and desks of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries.
Known almost universally as "Bible" boxes, until recently these delightful little articles of everyday use were virtually ignored by collectors and dealers alike.
The author illustrates fifty-three examples from the 16th to the 18th Centuries, arranged for ease of reference in a chronological sequence, and suggests methods of dating them from an examination of the style of ornament, the timber content, and methods of construction.
He traces the origins of the Classical motifs which decorate many of the early boxes, and reveals a link between embroidery patterns and woodcarving during the post-Restoration period.
Most of the dating techniques demonstrated in this book can also be applied to larger items of carved English oak of the period covered.
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