Furniture Glossary (original) (raw)

	Bail handle A handle of drawer pull wich hangs down iin a reversed arch or half moon. Introduced in the William and Mary period in England. Illustration**: Willow mount with bail handle, chest on chest -** Amherst Humphrey House at the Genesee Country Village, & Museum
	Bat's wing (bat wing) with bail handleBrass fittingCommon in Queen Anne style Illustration: Kneehole desk - Private collection, Buffalo, NY Chippendale Rococo lowboy - Private collection, Buffalo, NY Queen Anne highboy - Winterthur Museum
	Eastlake rectangular-shaped plate with a variety of chased designs, with angular or curved bail handleBright, oxidized or nickel-plated cast and stamped brass
	Embossed rosette knob Common in American Empirestyle Illustration**: Sheraton style sideboard -** MacKay Homestead, Genesee Country Village, & Museum
	Embossed rosette with pendent ring Common in the Sheratonperiod
	Lion's head with pendant ringBrass fittingCommon on Sheraton furniture
	Mission iron pull Illustration: Stickley chest of drawers - Private collection, Western NY
	Mission wooden pull Kendall sideboard - Carl Slone Antique Lighting and Windows
	Mushroom-turned wooden knobs Common on Sheraton / American Empire furniture Illustration: Victorian Chest of Drawers - Private Collection Drawers - Private Collection Flat-top secretary - Private Collection Drop leaf table - Lang Collection
	Oblong mount with bail handleBrass fittingCommon on Sheraton furniture
	Oval mount with bail handleBrass fittingCommon on Hepplewhitefurniture Pearling:A series of rounded forms of the same size, or graduated like a string of beads, used as a furniture embellishment, either in straight lines, arced or swagged. Illustration:Edward Harvey House. 91 Jewett Parkway Reproduction Hepplewhite sideboard - Kittinger Furniture Co. Reproduction Federal style serpentine chest of drawers - Kittinger Furniture Company Sideboard - Lang Collection
	Pear-shaped handle Illustration: Secretary - Corporal Hyde House at the Genesee Country Village, & Museum
	Pendant ring
	Pressed glass - Common on Sheraton/ American Empire furniture
	Renaissance Revival wooden pulls Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
	Rosettes with bail handles Brass fitting The rosettes are from an inch and a half to two across. Posts with rounded or rosette heads hold them in place. A complete handle with rosettes and bail measures three and a half to four and a half inches wide.They are either plain or with designenhanced by French-inspired patterns of decorative scrolls done in relief on both rosettes and bails. Plain: The plain type is found on many Chippendale chests of drawers and desks and on some Heppplewhite pieces, where their use is a survival from the preceding period. Round or oval with beaded rims Plaintype used ca. 1760-1800. Design: The elaborate kind chiefly grace the fine Chippendalechests of drawers which were made in Philadelphia.The design ones are foliage scrolled; the rim has a scrolled outline and, the bail is also scroll ornamented. Ornate type, ca. 1765-1775.Used in Chippendale style. Illustration: Plain - Old City Hall, Philadelphia Lang Collection Chippendale style bookcase - Independence Hall, Philadelphia Chippendale lowboy - Fairmount Park Woodford House, Philadelphia
	Rosette (embossed) with pendent ring Brass fitting
	Round mount with bail handle Brass Illustration**:**Nehemiah Adams ladies' secretary
	Teardrop pullBrass fitting Used on William and Mary pieces William and Mary highboy - Winterthur Museum Slant front desk - Colonial Revival and Hoosier Furniture Renaissance Revival style dressing table - McCann House
	Willow mount with bail handleBrass fitting Common on Chippendale pieces Illustration: Willow brass mount with bail handle - Chest-on-chest - Amherst Humphrey House at the Genesee Country Village, & Museum Chippendale chest on chest -DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, Va Queen Anne lowboy/dressing table -Fairmount Park Woodford House, Philadelphia Reproduction highboy - Kittinger Furniture Company Highboy - Private collection, Amherst, NY Transitional Chest of drawers - Lang Collection
	Wooden knobs and handlesIn the Puritan(or Jacobean) period, turned elongated wooden knobs were used consistently and appeared also on some of the early pieces in the William and MaryQueen Anne periods. Early Victorian: These were carved ones with finger grips or, on the cottage pieces, mushroom-turned knobs which were holdovers from the American Empire. and See "Mushroom-turned wooden knobs" above. Illustration:Victorian handle David Kendall Mission sideboard knob - Carl Slone Antique Lighting and Windows Rolltop desk leaf-carved - Hoover House, Amherst Museum Victorian commode - carved, wooden handle - Hoover House, Amherst Museum Oak bookcase - Old Editions Book Shop and Caf� Renaissance Revival rolltop desk -Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Victorian chest of drawers - McCann House

Hinges

For case pieces with doors or lids, there was the additional hardware of hinges. There were five designs made in wrought iron and two in brass.

Those of iron were American made, being forged by the local blacksmith of the community where the piece was made.

Brass hinges were imported as were the three types of brass feet used on tables, sofas and some chairs during the Sheratonand American Empire periods.