"Irish" Chippendale.—Certain pieces of furniture consisting of side-tables (with ma hogany or marble tops), china .cabinets and clothes-presses, are met with in Ireland of con struction, design and decoration similar the work of Chippendale. Their source of creation has never been determined, even after much research. They show good workmankhip, but these pieces when compared with true pieces of Chippendale the poverty of the carving as contrasted with the rich depths and sharp edges of the master's work stamps the piece as 'Irish" Chippendale: all the carving is flatter. Other characteristics are found. Half way down the leg is a circlet or gartei in relief. The scallop shell is on the top of the leg in true Chippendale style, but it is larger, more like that of the Queen Anne style. Grimacing masks appear on some pieces, some are slightly tilted out of the perpendicular The reason for supposing these pieces of furniture are Irish creations is supported not only by the' fact that they appear to have been all first • dis covered on that island, but also by the edge that the same dark grade of mahogany was imported to Ireland from Sah Domingo in West Indian trade.
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England) municipal bor ough•of Wiltshire, 13 miles•northeatiLof ,Bath, on the 'left bank of the. Avia,,IteteierOsstl tfY at ' ancient : statie. bridge of an archesi taw sites of.one prizicipal streetiaritIvothfers diverr ing fresh it. : It large ' parish churches ' with lofty .spires, an. old' and a new town-hall,' etc.. The.towhaaasidnte:the seat of important cloth mtinufantores9 .is ati impertast mart for cheese 'and has, making and tanning industries,: with Stone quarrits.in- the. neighbor hood. Bowood, the sett' of..,thet Marquis of Lansdowne, is three and bne-hallaniles/distant.
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